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Opinion | Manchin and Sinema Have Their History Wrong


July 30, 2021
It didn’t happen without a struggle back then either. Registering to vote in Macon, Ga., 1962.Credit.United States Information Agency/PhotoQuest, via Getty Images
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The attack on voting rights in this country is partisan. The response must be partisan as well. But whether out of unspoken political concerns or genuine conviction, key Democrats in Washington do not have the stomach for the partisan combat it would take to stop that attack.
“The right to vote is fundamental to our American democracy and protecting that right should not be about party or politics,” Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia wrote last month. “Least of all, protecting this right, which is a value I share, should never be done in a partisan manner.” ....

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Can Democrats Fix the Senate?


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Adam Jentleson.
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. Liveright, 2021.
Democrats had their sixty votes for a mere 212 days. From July 7, 2009, when Al Franken of Minnesota was finally sworn into office after winning by 312 votes, until February 4, 2010, when Scott Brown of Massachusetts took his seat after a shock win in a special election, the party had a sufficient majority to invoke cloture under the US Senate’s Rule 22 and close debate on legislation without needing votes from the other side. The last time either party had held sixty seats was in 1979. Given partisan sorting by geography and increased straight-ticket voting, Democrats will never pull it off again in any of our political lifetimes. ....

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