Even today, fifteen months before Election Day, we are in full political campaign season.  And while we hear a lot of loose talk about issues, it’s easy to forget that politics is also about both the art of governing, and sometimes doing so in the real world of compromise and possibilities.
Even with all the problems of our healthcare system, Doctors usually go into medicine because that have calling; a desire to help people.  While it's’ hard to believe sometimes, many politicians also have a calling and go into it because they have a desire to use the levers of policy to make the world a better place.
For Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, this is true.  Since Missouri became state, 194 years ago, she is the first woman to serve as its United States Senator and has just written her memoir Plenty Ladylike.
My conversation with Senator Claire McCaskill:

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