During Hillary Clinton’s gracious concession speech she mentioned that during the 40 years that she’s been involved in politics and public life the country has voted 10 times for president, with a Democrat winning the seat only three times.
Just think how much more progress we could have made over the past 40 years, Clinton said, if we had a Democratic president.
From the perspective of protecting the environment, expanding access to health care, promoting a progressive energy policy and even fiscal responsibility, I agree with this statement. But it was interesting to read an analysis by Larry Bartels, a professor of politics at Princeton, bearing this out in hard numbers for the daily-grind worker. Click here to read more