Contrasting the demographic vote in linchpin states in 2008, when Mr. Obama was victorious, and those where Republicans triumphed in the 2010 congressional elections underscores the importance of turnout.
In Linchpin, Seth writes, "Every organization needs a linchpin, the one person who can bring it together and make a difference.
And he is not alone in earning linchpin status for this reason.
After going 1 for 4 on Saturday, he is hitting.309 with 14 homers and 31 runs batted in, the linchpin of a lineup with seven regulars who are 26 to 29, baseball's prime ages.
In his linchpin role, though, Mr. Topol, who joined the cast just days before previews began (Joe Pantoliano left because of "creative differences") is saddled with too many Yogi-isms to be much more than a cartoon.
For months, the United States and French officials upheld Algeria, with its counterterrorism know-how and the biggest military budget in Africa, as the linchpin in resolving the threat of Islamist extremism in Mali.
It started when GM bought a 5% stake in the Japanese minicar linchpin in 1981, before ramming it up to 20% by 2001.
The source of the data, the Kazakh Scientific Center for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases in Almaty, Kazakhstan, was the linchpin in a network of Soviet antiplague institutes established after World War II to track bacterial diseases.
In 2008, Garnett was the linchpin in the Celtics' suffocating defense, using his mobility and length to crowd the paint and roam the perimeter, often on the same possession.
But she lived on in the imaginations of generations of working class Irish who grew up in Griffintown, and remains a linchpin in the memory of the Griffintown Irish community.
In other words, television is the linchpin in the N.F.L.'s enormous popularity.
