frogloe
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This is just plain stupid. Why in the world would anyone let politics slither in and destroy their relationship with members of their own family? I guess some people have become so jaded, that they figure it's worth drawing those lines.
Voting For Obama Keeps Families Away From Each Other For Thanksgiving « CBS DC
To be completely honest, I feel like the media has been grossly over exaggerating how partisan this country is. And the more the media loves to cover this issue, the more the country becomes convinced that it is very partisan.
Being completely technical here, I think our nation is mostly a nation of moderates. We're all very close to the center of the political spectrum and don't veer far from it, even if we do give the people across the isle a dirty glare. The only recent phenomenon is the fact that the media seems to be a lot happier to expose the more partisan bits of our public and in turn we all think that we stand miles away from our opposition in beliefs.
The blow up that occurred on facebook and other social media after the election results were announced was obnoxious. As much as we'd love to believe there were stunning differences, Romney and Obama were only swimming on different sides of the same pond, not on different sides of an ocean. We believe we're about ten times more partisan than we really are.