“What people don’t understand is the complexity behind that." “For example, it takes 60 votes to get anything done in the Senate. Or the relationship between special interest groups and congressional voting. Those things are more complicated. I don’t think people fully understand it because there’s too much emphasis placed on the minutia of things... Continue Reading →

"Old enough to kill but not for voting" was a 1967 lament of those under the age of 21. In October of that same year I had just turned 18 and beginning my freshman year in college. I would walk precincts for "Clean Gene" anyway. By March of my senior year, the voting age was... Continue Reading →