Nicholas Goldberg: In the election struggle between 'kitchen-table issues' and the fate of democracy, which side won?
by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Nov 09, 2022
2 minutes
As the nation holds its breath and the votes come trickling in, I keep coming back to the end-of-the-campaign words of Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a two-term Democrat who ran for reelection in a tight race in southeastern Michigan.
"I believe that our democracy is the ultimate kitchen table on a stop in East Lansing in the final week of the race. "In fact, it's not the kitchen table. Our democracy is the foundation of the home in which the kitchen table sits."
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