‘Left, Right & Center’: Election Postmortem Live at the Broad
President Barack Obama won a second term. The House Republicans kept their majority. And the Reagan coalition that Mitt Romney depended on to win appears to have disappeared. Was election 2012 a vote for the status quo? The "Left, Right & Center" commentators dissect the ramifications on this week's show.
President Barack Obama won a second term. The House Republicans kept their majority. And the Reagan coalition that Mitt Romney depended on to win appears to have disappeared. Was election 2012 a vote for the status quo?
Hear “Left, Right & Center” panelists Matt Miller, Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and Matthew Continetti consider what happens next now that a wild and expensive election season is behind us.
— Adapted from KCRW by Alexander Reed Kelly.
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