Theda Skocpol

Was this race effectively a ‘recall’ on President Obama? John Zogby gives us a picture of who turned out to vote yesterday, and Theda Skocpol, looks at how the mid-terms will affect the next two years of his presidency.

A new CNN poll finds that 86 percent of Americans think that government is broken. This week, we kick off a series called ‘Frustration Nation,’ where we examine the gridlock in the capital and how politics has come to be so divisive in America.

The Takeaway discusses the merits and shortcomings of the health care reform bill with Harvard professor Theda Skocpol. Hanging over the discussion, a larger question looms: is there a problem with the mechanics of how a bill becomes a law?

President Obama is preparing his Wednesday address on health care reform to a joint session of Congress. We talk to Takeaway regular Julie Mason of the Washington Examiner and Theda Skocpol, professor of government and sociology at Harvard University.

For a look at where the health care reform debate is heading next, The Takeaway is joined by Jonathan Cohn, senior editor at The New Republic, and Theda Skocpol, professor of government and sociology at Harvard University.