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• David Leonhardt in the New York Times on how the polling question “Who do you expect to win?” predicts results better than “Who do you support?” (In polls this year that have asked the expectation question, President Obama has dominated.) —Steve Bogira
• Where Romney and Obama actually stand on global warming? —Jerome Ludwig
• This insane, dexterous, definitive GQ profile of Wu-Tang Clan mastermind and now-film director RZA? (Sample passage: “A few minutes from now he will illustrate a statement about how small an amount of crack would get you a ten-year prison sentence back in the day by pointing to the side order of sesame-seared tofu on a plate in front of him. I don’t want to belabor the hood-to-Hollywood aspects of his story, but if you want a hood-to-Hollywood moment, there it is.”) —Tal Rosenberg
