Government Gridlock: Are We More Divided Than in the Past?

Name: Government Gridlock: Are We More Divided Than in the Past?
Uploaded: 2013-08-20T00:09:32Z
Duration: P569S
Description: Polls regularly find that Americans are unhappy with what's being done (or not done) in Washington. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Beverly Gage of Yale University, former Senate historian Richard Baker and Richard Norton Smith of George Mason University to get some historical perspective on shifts in America's political parties.

Clip: 08/19/2013 | 9m 29s

Polls regularly find that Americans are unhappy with what's being done (or not done) in Washington. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Beverly Gage of Yale University, former Senate historian Richard Baker and Richard Norton Smith of George Mason University to get some historical perspective on shifts in America's political parties.

Aired: 08/19/13

Rating: NR

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Government Gridlock: Are We More Divided Than in the Past?

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