Congressional approval rating hit a new now of 10.5 percent this week. If you’ve found yourself yelling at the radio and TV news coverage of the government shutdown and plotting revenge at the next election, you may not have to wait until 2014.
Last month, two of Colorado’s Democratic state senators became targets of a successful recall after voting for more restrictive gun legislation, adding to the increasing number of recall campaigns launched over the past two years.
Seth Masket is a political scientist at the University of Denver, and a regular contributor to Pacific Standard. He spoke with us about his article “The Recall is the New Normal”.
