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Is Washington's Partisanship 'Even Worse Than it Looks?'

Clip: 5/3/2012 | 8m 27s

Is Washington's Partisanship 'Even Worse Than it Looks?'

Judy Woodruff discusses the dysfunctional behavior in the nation's capital and what can be done to fix the polarization problems with Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, authors of the new book "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism."

05/03/2012

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