(Jon of the Clue Crew walks with crutches.)  Crutches are an example of a simple lever; the tip of the crutch acts as this point on whcih a lever turns
If that Democratic Convention which has now receded behind the ... political term 
which refers to the quixotic voter who will pull the lever for ... one does not have to 
put everything in -- an act of writing which calls for a ... to make one's little point 
and dress it with a ribbon or two of metaphor.