America’s Elected Officials, Pt. II
September 12, 2007Congress: Why We Love to Hate Them
Lecture by Larry Sabato
16 min
Summary:
Finding common ground among 535 individuals of different ethnic, geographic, economic, generational, and ideological backgrounds is inevitably a difficult task. While the media tends to define Congress by its worst members, this first branch of government functions – as Constitutionally designed – to play an important role in our political process.
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Larry Sabato is the founder and direction of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, a professor of politics, and a nationally renowned elections scholar.
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