Broder: A reporter, first and foremost
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightEven after he could barely walk, Washington Post political writer David Broder still journeyed to far-flung precincts, never trusting a political trend that he couldn’t witness for himself. At times, his shoe-leather approach was derided as too conventional, too cautious, or too focused on wins and losses. For younger journalists, he was sometimes a point of departure: They strived to provide a jolt of analytical brilliance that went beyond what was merely observable.But in the last decade...