Joe Lieberman: Why Washington Will Start Functioning Again

Popular opinion in America today is complicated and confusing. On the one hand, the evidence suggests that America has actually become less partisan. The percentage of Americans who self-identify as Republican or Democrat has fallen consistently for more than a decade, and the plurality who identify as Independent has grown. In other words, Americans are becoming less drawn to and invested in each of the two major political parties that have controlled our government since before the Civil War.