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Morning Clo:

A smart, effective politician would try to close the gap, near the middle, rather than simply antagonizing and blaming the other side.

The Democrats handling of gay marriage and mandatory insurance coverage for birth control and abortion is ridiculous, as is the Republican protection of tax cuts for rich folks.


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Picture of a Polarized Congress
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Sun, 03 Jun 12 5:37 PM
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Picture of a Polarized Congress

The deadlock between Republicans and Democrats is verified by a graphical mapping technique and analyzed by one of the method’s scholar-inventors.
By Keith Poole

Even the most casual of political observers have noticed that American politics has grown more divisive, charged, and dysfunctional in recent years. The political parties seem to have become ever more distant from one another, with few national political leaders staking out the middle ground. Commentators use the term “polarization” to describe this phenomenon. But can political polarization—defined, say, as the distance between Democrats and Republicans in Congress—actually be measured? The answer is yes, and our results illustrate the full extent to which polarization is now part of the American political zeitgeist.

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ftp://voteview.com/wf1/ViewpointPolarization.pdf


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