Barack Obama: “That's what's at stake.”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

It was nevertheless important that we all play a part in assuring that our elected officials are accountable.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

The essence of Prop. 50 is to say that if you are going to play that game, then we are going to try to counteract that abuse of the system.