Do Voters Want Bipartisanship... Or For Opponents To Agree With Them?

Do Voters Want Bipartisanship... Or For Opponents To Agree With Them?

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows that most voters want to see bipartisan compromise in Congress, but the survey also shows that Americans are as entrenched as they have been for years. So what is it that voters really want? And on issues where voters of both parties appear to have overlap — including the idea that American democracy is facing serious threats — are they really talking about the same thing?

This episode: political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, voting correspondent Miles Parks, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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