are saying is just politics one-on-one. try to be affable, try to create friendships, try to get people to like, you whatever their politics are. but it doesn t like our politics are the opposite right now. so that seems like your state, there s something different going on there. well like you said, it didn t used to be like this. when i was elected in 1998, and when i first was introduced to politics firsthand in 1996 there was so much more bipartisanship, at that time we had senator ted stephens who had been working with for alaskans for decades, and he had been such a close partnership and friendship with senator daniel from hawaii. and just on and on examples like that. congressman young, my predecessor, was one of fewer than 50 people to lay in state, and nancy pelosi was the person who made that happen. he had welcomes every single member of congress. as a freshman. and he had friendships that spans across all party lines, and all of the range of