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**buchmausar** · 06-29-2007, 09:32 PM

Any discussion like this that uses a "red/blue" map as an indicator of two separate Americas must be the fault of the media. As a country, we agree on many things more of the time than we are told.

Consider that many of those "red" states had voting distributions very close to 50/50. Same for the blue. The political ideology spectrum is what's causing the problem: its airtime is dominated by the extremes. There are far more people who would describe themselves as middle of the line than "strongly liberal" or "strongly conservative." Polls estimate the number of "true" Republicans to be a little higher than 20%; "true" democrats, nearly 30%. Where's everyone else?

06-29-2007, 09:32 PM	#12
buchmausar Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 548 Senior Member	Any discussion like this that uses a "red/blue" map as an indicator of two separate Americas must be the fault of the media. As a country, we agree on many things more of the time than we are told. Consider that many of those "red" states had voting distributions very close to 50/50. Same for the blue. The political ideology spectrum is what's causing the problem: its airtime is dominated by the extremes. There are far more people who would describe themselves as middle of the line than "strongly liberal" or "strongly conservative." Polls estimate the number of "true" Republicans to be a little higher than 20%; "true" democrats, nearly 30%. Where's everyone else?
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