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Washington Post: People in Newton, PA want bipartisanship

Posted Feb. 25, 2010

The citizens of this well-to-do hamlet outside Philadelphia know a thing or two about bipartisan affability. Over the past 32 years, they've sent Republicans and Democrats to represent them in the people's house, swinging back and forth, 16 years per party. And they've pretty much liked all of them. So the disgust over Washington's dysfunction is even sharper here. The politics they see playing out are "a high school game" of "tit for tat," a "schoolyard game," a "two-headed snake," and the federal city is a place where "you can't change anything," according to descriptions that emerged this week in interviews with more than a dozen voters around Bucks County.

Read the full article here.


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