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Can Anyone Bring America Together in an Era of Division?
Published 12/2/2008 at The Hollywood Liberal
Can Anyone Bring America Together in an Era of Division? [image] President-elect Barack Obama says he wants to bring America together. While that rallying cry sounds good to many people, it would require a Herculean task that may well be impossible. We are currently in a media environment dominated by loud, often-nasty ideologues who care more about belittling and demonizing the opposition than promoting ideas and civility. While some of our politicians and political leaders certainly deserve blame for contributing to the animosity, the problem goes beyond them and to ...

Static Cling
Published 12/3/2008 by Chad The Elder (noreply@blogger.com) at Fraters Libertas
Stuart Rothenberg wonders if Anyone Can Bring America Together in an Era of Division? In the piece, he shows that Obama's election was not in fact a unifying event and that the country still remains deeply divided, especially among cultural lines: The country's deepest and most-explosive division revolves around culture. Four in 10 voters attend religious services at least weekly, and they went for John McCain, 55 percent to 43 percent. Almost an equal number of voters, 42 percent, said they attend religious services only occasionally, and they went for Obama, 57 percent to 42 percent. And among those voters who never attend religious services, Obama won by 37 points, 67 ...

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Published 12/3/2008 by DemFromCT at Daily Kos
Wednesday is a good day to abbreviate. NY Times: If he is confirmed by the Senate as attorney general, Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for the job, will inherit a Justice Department that has been mired in scandal and that has seriously lost its way in critical areas. Under President Bush, the department has been used to defend the indefensible, like indefinite detention and torture of prisoners, and to undermine rather than protect Americans’ cherished rights. Mr. Holder could be an exemplary choice to face this daunting agenda, but he must answer serious questions before the Senate votes on his ...