Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Hey, how about the Congress?

I watched George Will interviewed by David Broder on C-Span's BookTV. While Will's ideological commitment is not quite what I agree with, he made a wonderful observation during the interview: that we are obsessing with the presidential elections, so much so that we set up any candidate to fail as the president, once elected. Further, the presidency is only one of the three branches of the government. To quote Will, "the presidency is not the heart of the matter." Which means, we ought to pay a lot of attention to the Congressional elections too.

Click here to watch the interview online. Advance to 28 minutes for his comments on the executive power.

So, what is being projected at the Congressional level at the November elections? The Cook Political Report has a great deal of info on this.

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