31.   American politics is all about mass.

32.   American politics is in danger of losing its soul.

33.   American politics used to be a participatory sport, not a spectator sport, and it was conducted by getting people to hold signs and sit in phone banks.

34.   And as the story of Whitewater unravels, it has become a key to much that is wrong with American politics.

35.   And Frost, who is a walking encyclopedia of American politics, has a few facts and figures to back up his contention.

36.   And he might have saved American politics from another unnecessary drubbing.

37.   And American politics has partaken of this slide into celebrity.

38.   And for any student of American politics and electoral history, it is hard to imagine a more engaging way to spend a January weekend.

39.   And does the proposal not draw the United Nations into American domestic politics, which require that the influx of Haitian refugees be stemmed?

40.   And it is an axiom of American politics that politicians rarely act until they have to.