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...said. There is a cultural chasm between the red states and the blue, between the religious and the secular, between Michael Moore's America and Rush Limbaugh's. The "culture war" has become a pillar of the conventional wisdom. But is it real? Is it possible that the great partisan divide is a media-induced mirage, little more than an exaggerated case of squeaky-wheelism? There is plenty of evidence that the very real disputes pushed by political activists and chair-throwing media yakkers--call this the Anger-Industrial Complex--are being carelessly extrapolated to include a far less vehement...
...average voters were having a hard time telling the difference between the presidential candidates on most issues," says Kohut. "That's not the case this year. There are real anxieties, real differences on the big issues--the war and the economy. The cultural issues are less important now. The partisan differences between the political activists are the greatest I've ever seen." But again, what about the rest of us? "If one-third of the public are activists, another third are leaners," Kohut says, adding that the final third are only vaguely interested, if at all. "What we're seeing...
...Fiorina believes the public debate has been hijacked by political "purists"--like the abortion-rights activists at NARAL and the gun lovers at the N.R.A.--who find that taking the most extreme positions is the most efficacious way to solicit money, and also by the corruption of journalism by partisan blowhards like Moore and Limbaugh. And he has a point. In a world where Islamist terrorism and globalization-induced economic anxiety were distant clouds, single-issue fanatics had a clear field to pollute the public square. Scream journalism--Crossfire, Hannity and Colmes, the various "gangs" and "groups" of Washington blabocrats...
...after some consideration, I’m becoming more optimistic about young voter turnout this election cycle. On top of the non-partisan get-out-the-vote drives aimed at youth, there are forces marshaling against President Bush that are influential with Generation Y, and it looks like young Americans—generally more liberal than the population at large, and therefore more likely to hop on the anti-Bush bandwagon—are responding...
...directed a bipartisan commission on post-conflict reconstruction for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, acted as director of the Washington office of the non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations and was selected as one of six members of a bipartisan commission sent to Iraq last July to offer advice on rebuilding the country...