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If you disagree. You can also participate via social media. Cspanwj is our twitter handle and you can join the live the conversation on facebook. Com cspan. Here is the oped in the Washington Post for may 20. We must read out the ignorant americans from we must weed out the ignorant americans from the election. Survey theed only ongoing president ial race to comprehend that the most pressing problem facing the nation is not big business, big labor, big media or even big money in politics, it is you, the American Voter. Out millions of irresponsible voters who cannot be bothered to learn the rudimentary workings of the constitution or the preferred proposals or their history, we may be able to mitigate the recklessness of the electorate. No, we should not direct physical barriers to ballot access. Lets purchase more voting machines, higher dish in a poll workers, streamlined registration process, may allow more ballots for seniors and produce more rock the boat ads, employing apathetic
extramarital affair at that time. one of several as it turns out. that is like the, you know, neon glowing hypocrisy asterisk that will always float over that particular and particularly weird time in american political history. you know what, newt gingrich was not the only one. in 1998 in the middle of the whole clinton impeachment misch goss, there was a midterm election, the 98 midterm, and the president s party, historically speaking always does poorly during midterm elections, and so historically speaking you would normally expect the democratic party to get clobbered in that election. it was the second midterm of president clinton s two terms in office. but this impeachment thing that the republicans had dreamed up over president clinton s extramarital affair however exciting the whole impeachment process it was to them it was basically disgusting to the rest of the country. and the democrats not only didn t get clobbered in those midterm elections, they did great in t
election, the 98 midterm, and the president s party, historically speaking, always does poorly during midterm elections, and so, historically speaking, you would normally expect the democratic party to get clobbered in that election. it was the second midterm of president clinton s two terms in office. but this impeachment thing that the republicans had dreamed up over president clinton s extramarital affair, however exciting the whole impeachment process it was to them, it was basically disgusting to the rest of the country. and the democrats not only didn t get clobbered in those midterm elections, they did great in those midterm elections. they actually picked up seats in the house, which historically speaking is unheard of. in 98, the democrats did way better than expected. it was in the middle of the impeachment thing and newt gingrich, who had been the speaker of the house, leading the house republicans in that election, leading the house republicans on the impeachmen