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Showing posts with label mid-term elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mid-term elections. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Hidden Tribes
More in Common is a new research organization missioned "to better understand the forces that drive political polarization and tribalism in the United States today, and to galvanize efforts to address them."
Their first project is the Hidden Tribes of America survey report that defines the tribes, and tries to explain their core beliefs and opinions on today's issues.
Though the labels and issues are in flux, getting elected and remaining in office to govern successfully depends on building coalitions across these groups, especially toward the middle. Our elected officials and the news media should play constructive roles in finding common ground to reduce polarization, not inflame it.
The Wall Street Journal just published a video series Voices From a Divided America that gives voice to Americans and issues on all sides, without editorial bias or reader comments. It's worth a listen.
The 2018 mid-term election results will be known next week. Is either side ready to listen and work together to compromise and govern? Or, will we just shift to 2020 election mode and further embed the blame, ad hominem attacks, and polarization? And does that suggest that the time might finally be right for a credible third-party candidate and platform who speaks across the divide to the "exhausted majority"?
Their first project is the Hidden Tribes of America survey report that defines the tribes, and tries to explain their core beliefs and opinions on today's issues.
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| More in Common ~ Hidden Tribes |
Though the labels and issues are in flux, getting elected and remaining in office to govern successfully depends on building coalitions across these groups, especially toward the middle. Our elected officials and the news media should play constructive roles in finding common ground to reduce polarization, not inflame it.
The Wall Street Journal just published a video series Voices From a Divided America that gives voice to Americans and issues on all sides, without editorial bias or reader comments. It's worth a listen.
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| The Wall Street Journal ~ Voices From a Divided America |
The 2018 mid-term election results will be known next week. Is either side ready to listen and work together to compromise and govern? Or, will we just shift to 2020 election mode and further embed the blame, ad hominem attacks, and polarization? And does that suggest that the time might finally be right for a credible third-party candidate and platform who speaks across the divide to the "exhausted majority"?
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Disappoint Mints
A week before potentially seismic mid-term election results for the Obama administration's grandiose plans to "transform America" if not the universe, the "greatness" obituaries are popping up in more than just the usual places.
From Charles Krauthammer in the National Review - "Barack Obama, Bewildered Bystander":
"His principal job, after all, is to administer the government and to get the right people to do it. (That’s why we typically send governors rather than senators to the White House.) That’s called management. Obama had never managed anything before running for the biggest management job on earth. It shows."More surprising is Jeff Shesol's article "Obama and the End of Greatness" in The New Yorker:
"So, for all our disappointment over the fact that Obama’s Presidency has been—in the parlance of the political scientists—more transactional than transformational, we should probably stop knocking him for not being Lincoln (even if it was Obama himself who encouraged the comparison)."
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