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To: bentway who wrote (368829)	1/28/2008 11:40:38 AM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1574129

>You're a young guy. (D)'s and (R)'s used to more often than not vote independently, based on the desires of their constituents. They used to hang out together, party together. The entire political scene was much more civil. I know that it was a bit better in the '80s... but looking through the whole of American history, it seems to be exception rather than the rule. >A pol's private life was off limits while he was alive, unless he somehow outed himself through stupidity. Well, a lot of that was also that there wasn't a 24-hour news cycle... -Z