President Obama stated, “I’ll be the first to admit that the tone of our politics hasn’t gotten better, but worse” and that making it easier to vote, among other changes, can help change this during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody. I’m speaking to you today from Springfield, Illinois. I spent eight years in the state senate here. It was a place where, for all our surface differences in a state as diverse as Illinois, my colleagues and I actually shared a lot in common. We fought for our principles, and voted against each other, but because we assumed the best in one another, not the worst, we found room for progress. We bridged differences to get things done. In my travels through this state, I saw most Americans do the same. Folks know that issues are complicated, and that people with different ideas might have a point. It convinced me that if we just approached our politics the same way we approach our daily lives, with common sense, a commitment to fairness, and the belief that we’re all in this together, there’s nothing we can’t do. That’s why I announced, right here, in Springfield that I was