Would Rachel Maddow Be A Good Senator?
Hat tip to Politico’s Michael Calderone for digging through the web archives for this Sunday’s much talked-about Meet The Press to find this gem: Mike Murphy and Rachel Maddow going off about a prospective Maddow For Senate campaign.
Maddow isn’t exactly pulling a 2008 Chris Matthews; she’s not too keen on the idea. The exchange came up in response to an email from a viewer, which asked “Rachel, do you think you would be a good Senator? Or are your opinions too set? Could you wheel and deal? Could you forge bipartisan consensus?”
Maddow’s answer: a firm ‘no.’ “It depends, I think, in part on whether you want your daily job to be participating in a big group decision with other legislators. That’s really what legislating is, right? You’re trying to come up with a group decision among these hundred or among your committee or among your subcommittee about how to move forward, and I’m bad at that.”
Murphy, for his part, said he’d be “a great czar,” but a lousy senator. But he had a serious point as well: that more people in the opinion journalism world should run for public office, if only to learn what campaigns — and actual voters — are really like.
Never mind what Maddow says about herself, though: do you think she’d be a good Senator?
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