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Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.
Ron Fournier

Nothing, Victory, Public

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.
Ron Fournier

Victory, Might, President

A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.
James Wolcott

Once, Reflection, Mirror

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
Ian Mcewan

Politics, Pretty, Energy

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.
Howard Dean

Hard, Done, Problem

I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Sam Mendes

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.
Spencer Bachus

America, Both, Passionate

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.
John Avlon

Important, Two, Before

Redistricting and a broken, polarized Congress have made it tough to be a moderate in Congress.
Mike Ross

Made, Tough, Broken

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
Hamilton Jordan

Good, Live, Trying

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
Patrick Buchanan

War, Country, Soul

What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.
Walter Washington

Hate, Greed, Spirit

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