On this week’s edition of Washington Monthly’s BloggingheadsTV Video and podcast Paul Glastris and I talked with Julie Mason of SiriusXM radio, where she hosts the Press Pool program, about the varying perspectives of political scientists and campaign journalists on this cycle’s strange doings. It was quite a lively discussion that political animals should enjoy.

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