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John Heilemann

John Arthur Heilemann is an American journalist for New York magazine, where he mainly covers US politics. Previously, he was a staff writer for The New Yorker, Wired and The Economist. He is the co-author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Game Change Obama and the Clintons McCain and Palin and the Race of a Lifetime, about the 2008 US presidential campaign. Heilemann is also a political analyst for MSNBC.


“We are the makers of history, not its victims.”
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“If you think all these terrible things about Obama, he asked the woman, how can you possibly be undecided?Because if McCain dies, Palin would be president, she said.”
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