the point that I was trying to make. Most people agree on the following:
1. Bush sucks.
2. Having radical social experiments shoved down out throat sucks.
It's not that 51% of Americans made a choice for number 1, and 49% of Americans made a choice for number 2. It's that 51% thought that number 2 was more sucky, and 49% thought that number 1 was more sucky. This is not indicative of a divide. It is indicative of a spectrum of views that happens to have a critical point at 51/49 in favor of Bush.
To illustrate my point, consider the result from Michigan:
President - Kerry 51% Bush 49%
Ban same-sex marriage - Yes 59% No 41%
Different results. Voters do not divide into a "red" camp and a "blue" camp. There's a 10% bloc there that cares enough about the issue of marriage to vote for a ban of something that's already illegal, but would rather see Bush go (or, for some unfathomable reason, actually wants to see Kerry as President).
There is no polarization here.
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Be conservative in what you do. Be liberal in what you accept from others.
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