Stalemate: The Worst Possible Outcome

The nation, says Ruth A. Wooden, is still in a very partisan moment, and with the public indicating overwhelmingly that the economy is the issue they most want addressed, it's important to remember that when results matter, stalemate would be the worst possible outcome.

Wooden, as president of nonpartisan Public Agenda, is a champion for the nonpartisan approach to solving urgent public policy problems. Click here to see the video of her observations at the Demos Forum in New York, where she and Norton Garfinkle discussed the latest edition of the Public Confidence in the State of the Nation, a series of reports by The Future of American Democracy Foundation, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to research and education.

Garfinkle is editor of the report and chairman of The Future of American Democracy Foundation. Wooden is a board member of Demos, a nonpartisan public policy research and advocacy organization, and also serves on The Future of American Democracy advisory board, which is led by Public Agenda chairman and co-founder Daniel Yankelovich.