Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaking to CPAC 2013. Photo by Gage Skidmore.
On Wednesday, at the first Democratic debate, the candidates were asked a key question: how do they plan to prevent Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) from blocking their agenda?
It was an important and practical question. But on Thursday, Vox's David Roberts pointed out that, from a big picture view, it is actually an incredibly strange thing to ask the candidates — and indicative of a dangerous double standard in how Democrats and Republicans are both covered and questioned by the mainstream press:
