Meanwhile, the presidential campaign they are waging is helping to harden the partisan divisions that have defined the country's politics for a decade or more. Rather than finding ways to bring about real reconciliation, the campaign is fostering the further polarization of the country. Good luck to the winner, who will then try to govern in the aftermath.
Both seem committed to trying to govern in a less partisan way if they are elected. But there may be a certain amount of hollowness to their words on Thursday, given the angry prelude to the day's events. Even putting lipstick on the campaign won't do much at this point.Read Article Here.
At this point I think you have to ask yourself why anyone would want to be President. Seems like no matter what people will be attempting to tear you down and both sides are bitter and hostile to the other. And all the rhetoric on both sides seems to have done little to actually make people change. I live with a fair amount of foreign kids and they do not get American politics. They can not understand how Obama is not way ahead. The only way I can describe it is that we are so entrenched in ideology and afraid of change, that we can not imagine it any other way.
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