Partisan Gap Is at A High, Poll Finds (Pew Poll)

[Khephra]

Partisan Gap Is at A High, Poll Finds
Voters Split on War, Domestic Issues
By David S. Broder
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 9, 2003; Page A06


Partisan differences over both national security and domestic issues are at a historic high a year before Election Day, according to an in-depth voter poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

Andrew Kohut, the center's director, said the survey showed that the Republican Party has gained parity with the Democrats but because of public concern about Iraq and the economy, President Bush is locked in a dead heat with a generic Democratic opponent.

The result, the center says, is that the United States "remains a country that is almost evenly divided politically -- yet further apart than ever in its political values."

The findings were based on a pair of surveys -- a late July study of a broad set of issues that reflect basic voter values and a mid-October follow-up that asked a different sample of voters about Bush, Iraq and other current topics.

more...............

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17267-2003Nov8.html

[ThorsteinVeblen]

1. Let's fight.

[Nancy Waterman]

2. Can't we just divide up and have two countries

With two governments and armies and economies? I am sick and tired of these right wing whackos running everything. Maybe we could encourage them to succede (again). Sorry, but I am just fed up.

[politicat]

3. It seems like a good idea. But....

I've just got this sneaking suspicion that they'd draw the borders, and we'd somehow get stuck with the worst possible places in the country. It's not like we can just divide the country down the middle, and if we did, there are a lot of us that would end up on the "wrong" side of the border.....

Sow me a plan that gives both sides equal access to water, waterways, farmland, manufacturing facilities and mineral resources..... and we'll move in a heartbeat.

Languishing in the People's Republic of Boulder, the liberal fortified stronghold in the home of the Dobson's Focused on Everyone Else's Family Theocratic Army,

Politicat

[RaRa]

4. Yes, and I'm tired of average joe American

agreeing mindlessly to these polls. Given the state of things, I will only be dismayed until the polls show serious anti * numbers. Gawd, let's assume 5-10 % of our population is mentally deficient in some way or another. Why, oh why are this asshole's numbers anywhere near where they are? Sorry folks, I just can't get excited about chimp's declining numbers. Not until he's back on the ranch for good. (Well, behind bars where he belongs, would be better, but that's dreaming.)

[woofless]

5. The Republic of Cascadia

is looking better all the time.

http://zapatopi.net/cascadia.html

[DBoon]

7. Ecotopia anyone?

"This society, the nation of Ecotopia, is born in 1980 when the citizens of Washington, Oregon, and northern California respond to the developing, industrializing, polluting, exploiting, extracting, militarizing behavior of the United States by seceding from the union. "

reviewed in http://www.strangewords.com/archive/ecotopia.html

[Kitsune]

11. YAY!

Free Cascadia!

[0007]

9. I feel the same way Nancy...

The right wingers won't change and I won't change to be like them. I rather be dead.

A split would be best, but how?

[BuckeFushe]

6. Fear breeds hatred

"Fear breeds hatred, and Bush's policies create a lot of both. U.S. citizens like Jose Padilla and Yasser Hamdi disappear into the night, never to be heard from again. A concentration camp rises at Guantánamo. Stasi-like spies tap our phones and read our mail; thanks to the ironically-named Patriot Act, these thugs don't even need a warrant. As individual rights are trampled, corporate profits are sacrosanct. An aggressive, expansionist military invades other nations 'preemptively' to eliminate the threat of non-existent weapons, and American troops die to enrich a company that buys off the Vice President."

Ted Rall

[suegeo]

8. Imagine what our country would be like...

Just imagine what the country would be like with a non-ho press.

Despite spewing the fascist line 24/7, the neo-cons have only achieved parity? Their ideas must really really suck, to have even the dumbed down reject them.

[Snellius]

10. If we have a civil war, who would win?

If reactionary forces continue as they are, sooner or later some cause celebre will come along and spark an open war.

[loudnclear]

12. Dyslexic Bush: "I'm a untier, not a divider."

The world as well as America and the political parties are more splintered than ever in my 50-year rememberence. Thanks to the "uniter." Or rather the "untier."

[janx]

13. Well they wanted their little culture war, and they got it.

It was a self-fulfilling prophecy.