What Olympia Snowe and the Media Get Wrong About Polarization in American Politics
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Posted 03.01.2012
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The Olympia Snowes of the world can complain all they want about the lack of middle ground. But plaints like this misapprehend fundamentally the dynamics of American politics. We're polarized largely because one party -- Snowe's own -- has simply gone off the deep end.
