VIDEO: Samantha Bee on How Progressives Slept Through the Most Important Election in Recent History
Pundits and politicians like to make each presidential election seem like the end-all of American politics, and yet one of the elections that has had the biggest impact on our everyday lives was the midterm election of 2010, according to the "Full Frontal" host.Pundits and politicians like to make each presidential election seem like the end-all of American politics, and yet one of the elections that has had the biggest impact on our everyday lives was the midterm election of 2010, according to the “Full Frontal” host.
To drive home her point about how crucial the 2010 midterms were, Bee does a segment about the restrictions that were subsequently placed on abortion rights after new conservative representatives were elected all across the country.
— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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