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I think there were two messages in last year's election. one is pretty obvious. people were mad as hell at the president [barack obama] - and wanted to send a message. we all got that. our new members were also hearing, and i was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the congress was dysfunctional. now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the house. factually, that's not accurate. the dysfunction was in the senate.
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Mitch McConnell
I think there were two messages in last year's election. one is pretty obvious. people were mad as hell at the president [barack obama] - and wanted to send a message. we all got that. our new members were also hearing, and i was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the congress was dysfunctional. now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the house. factually, that's not accurate. the dysfunction was in the senate.
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