Do Voters Care About Ethics?

A FiveThirtyEight Chat, FiveThirtyEight: Politics
Tue, 01/03/2017 - 1:43pm

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In this week’s politics chat, we try to make sense of the aborted effort by House Republicans to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics. The transcript below has been lightly edited.micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): Welcome to the first politics chat of 2017, everyone! Nate is off somewhere vacationing, so we’re joined today instead by our managing editor, David!

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