I first started thinking about this when I read
this piece in The Atlantic a while ago. It quotes two former Clinton advisors that the best predictors of who someone will vote for, other than party affiliation and race, are how they answer five questions:
Do you believe homosexuality is morally wrong? Do you ever personally look at pornography? Would you look down on someone who had an affair while married? Do you believe sex before marriage is morally wrong? The fifth question was whether religion was very important in the voter's life.
If it's true, this is a worrying development. It means that the American political spectrum is increasingly divided along these idealogical lines, increasingly polarized and contentious. This erodes the quality of political debate in the country, and makes it herder to achieve a consensus on important issues. Maybe I'm just worried because I've spend the last hour and a half watching people shout at each other on Fox News, but I think that there may be something to the criticsim anyway.[/quote][/url]
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