AUDIO:WHY US POLITICS POISONOUS, POLARIZED, GRIDLOCKED

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Part 3

Then finally we look into the state of polarization in Washington with Keith Poole, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia and author of “Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches”. We discuss the reasons why our politics have become so poisonous, polarized and gridlocked and whether the Republicans will pay a price for the Tea Party’s unpopular exercise of government by extortion.