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Does MSNBC Host Rev. Al Sharpton Know More Than 37% of Americans: What Party Controls the Senate?
Al Sharpton apparently needs to the the memo - from 2007.
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Does MSNBC Host Rev. Al Sharpton Know More Than 37% of Americans: What Party Controls the Senate?

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Meet MSNBC political pundit the Reverend Al Sharpton. Sharpton recently stepped into a political cow paddy by averring the Senate was run by Republican Mitch McConnell.
Newsbusters caught the blunder in an MSNBC panel discussing President Obama seeking Congressional approval for his new foray into Syria and Iraq to fight the Islamic group ISIS. Newsbusters helpfully offered a transcript:
SHARPTON: If in fact those that are opposed to the president feel they have the votes, they should then convene and vote and tell the American people, we’ve said something needs to be done, we don’t care what the polls say, we’re voting against this president. It’s for them to convene and to say Mitch Mcconnell and John Boehner can call the vote. We should be asking why won’t they call the vote if they think the president is out of bounds.
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell can perhaps go on C-SPAN, fulminate, and call for a vote. But, oblivious Sharpton doesn’t seem to understand McConnell, the Minority Leader, is not in charge of the United States Senate.
Only Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can effect a vote. Later, Sharpton appears to have caught his mistake and then blunders on in an attempt patch it up:
SHARPTON: I think that if Mr. Boehner is serious, then he’s the Speaker of the House, call a vote. I think John McCain should go to the floor of the Senate tomorrow, call a vote. It’s very interesting how McCain even said, “Yes, I think it should be a vote, I don’t know why the president doesn’t call it.”He’s in the Senate. They’re the heads of the committees. They have the numbers to call votes. I mean, what are we talking about here? It’s like everyone is dancing around what they should do. The president laid out his four-point strategy tonight, whether one agrees or not. They’re talking about a vote they can call.
Here again, after inexplicably invoking the name of John McCain and after calling on McConnell to call a vote, Sharpton claims, “[T]hey’re the heads of the committees. They have the numbers to call votes.”
Uh, Al, no they don’t. Only the majority party is allowed to lead committees. Republicans have only 45 seats in the Senate. To repeat, the Democrats are in charge and have been since 2007.
Even though he’s a leading pundit for MSNBC and should know better, Sharpton certainly has a lot of company, according to a new Rasmussen poll.
Rasmussen Reports reveals that just 63% of voters know who’s running the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, but 37% either don’t know or seem to care. And this latest poll actually shows things are getting worse.
Respondents had a 50-50 chance of getting it right and 37% still biffed the answer. Apparently, including MSNBC host Al Sharpton.

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