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    Would divided government mean gridlock?

    GOP candidates point with alarm at Hillary Clinton’s Supreme Court nominees, free college tuition and “Big Government” that’s bigger than ever. Advocates for Republicans are almost saying it out loud: Hillary Clinton is likely to be America’s next President.

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    By Warren Olney • Oct 21, 2016 • 1 min read

    GOP candidates point with alarm at Hillary Clinton’s Supreme Court nominees, free college tuition and “Big Government” that’s bigger than ever. Advocates for Republicans are almost saying it out loud: Hillary Clinton is likely to be America’s next President. That’s got them campaigning to maintain a divided government. Are they selling government by checks and balances in hopes of gridlock and four years of a Democratic president who can’t get anything done? Is that what voters really want?

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Rick Hasen

      professor of law and the director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA

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    2 of 3
    Would divided government mean gridlock?
    1. 1:49Aleppo's a "slaughterhouse' says UN Human Rights Chief
    2. 8:43Would divided government mean gridlock?You’re reading this
    3. 43:14Terror in Europe
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