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Reid, McConnell dodge questions, refuse to look at one another during ’60 Minutes’ spot

How bad is the partisan divide in the U.S. Senate? Bad enough that the leaders of the two parties wouldn’t answer questions or even so much as look at one another during their first-ever interview together on Sunday night. “It was very chilly,” “60 Minutes” reporter Steve Kroft said, summarizing…

Obama acknowledges his message didn’t get through

Obama concedes in interview he ‘stopped paying attention’ to selling his message to voters President Barack Obama is acknowledging in the wake of this week’s election rout that he hasn’t been able to successfully promote his economic-rescue message to anxious Americans. Obama says in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes”…