Punch-Line Politics
Re “A Big Mississippi Thank Y’all,” Commentary, Aug. 15: Robert McElvaine erroneously claims that the recall circus officially makes California’s politics more of a national joke than Mississippi’s. Two words prove him wrong: Trent Lott.
John Long
Pasadena
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