Next, the discussion about the criteria u. S. Voters are using to pick a president ial candidate. From washington journal, this is just under one hour. Rick shenkman is the History News Network founder and author of political animals how our stoneage brain gets in the way of smart politics. Henkman, do shark attacks affect elections . Guest 100 years ago in 1916, the worst fear of shark attacks struck southern new jersey. That everyones had seen was based on the story of what happened then. Weeks, four people were killed in shark attacks. What does that have to do with politics . Woodrow wilson was up for reelection. But in thejersey, small beach towns devastated by the shark attacks, people heard shark and everyone went home. He was a devastating Economic Development for that area. , the peoplee vote in those towns voted against Woodrow Wilson in overwhelming numbers. In the same proportion that those people voted against Herbert Hoover at the height of the great depression. Why . Woo
You can see the lines they are on the screen. You can make a comment through social media. This is the inside page of usa today. York times onw the front page. Politico this morning, clinton and sanders for all in the brooklyn. They engaged in their most vicious debate yet. They delivered a two hour shouting match. Street,wled over wall tons, racism, the minimum wage, and fitness for the white house. Here is a little bit more of the debate. Secretary clinton have the experience to be president . Of course she does. Question her judgment. That voteda judgment for the war in iraq. The worst foreignpolicy blunder in the history of this country. Voted for every disastrous trade agreement that cost us millions of decent paying jobs. I question her judgment about running super pacs that are collecting tens of millions of dollars from special interests, including 15 million from wall street. Thats thebelieve kind of judgment we need to be the kind of president we need. That now the spotlight
Author of political animals how our stoneage brain gets in the way of smart politics. Henkman, do shark attacks affect elections . Guest 100 years ago in 1916, the worst fear of shark attacks struck southern new jersey. That everyones had seen was based on the story of what happened then. Weeks, four people were killed in shark attacks. What does that have to do with politics . Woodrow wilson was up for reelection. But in thejersey, small beach towns devastated by the shark attacks, people heard shark and everyone went home. He was a devastating Economic Development for that area. , the peoplee vote in those towns voted against Woodrow Wilson in overwhelming numbers. In the same proportion that those people voted against Herbert Hoover at the height of the great depression. Why . Woodrow wilson could not have done anything to help those people solve their shark problem. That was beyond the powers of the president. People are irrational when they vote. Particularly, political scientists
Idea. Either keeping fema out of it or keeping fema in dhs but more robust would be a better idea. Secret service could have been used opportunity to split secret service into two different agencies. Right now they have a dual mission. That dual mission is very confusing for people in secret Service Monetary investigations and protecting the president and other officials. Those are two you know, unrelated missions. So i think other things could have been done maybe not quite as extreme as what we got. Im sorry. Were out of time. We had a good discussion. There is no doubt that this issue of Homeland Security is an important issue for our country. The organization of government changed. The way that we looked at government changed as a result of it and you heard a challenge here today. If you dont like what you see, get involved with it. Thank you all. Thanks to the panelists for being here. We appreciate everything. Thank you. [applause] Hillary Clinton makes first trip to South Caroli
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