“Let the battle for the libertarian center begin,” is how David Boaz ends that post on the Virginia Senate race. He is expressing a hope, I take it, not making a prediction. If either of the campaigns really bases its strategy on trying to court free-trading, pro-same-sex-marriage voters, the other candidate will win handily. In reality, Webb is unlikely, for example, to make a big point out of his opposition to the marriage amendment in order to win votes in Virginia.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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