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Nov 6, 2023 · The current U.S. Congress is on track to be the most polarized ever, according to a running analysis at voteview.com, a tool widely used by political scientists that sorts lawmakers based...
Mar 10, 2022 · It’s become commonplace among observers of U.S. politics to decry partisan polarization in Congress. Indeed, a Pew Research Center analysis finds that, on average, Democrats and Republicans are farther apart ideologically today than at any time in the past 50 years.
- Drew Desilver
Mar 17, 2022 · Congressional Democrats and Republicans are further apart ideologically than at any point during the past five decades — and Republicans are more to blame than Democrats, according to analysis by Pew Research Center.
- Stef W. Kight
Aug 19, 2024 · Between the 1950s and 1970s, typical members of Congress voted with their party on divisive questions just more than 60 percent of the time; in the 1990s, this figure rose past 80 percent, and since 2000, it has exceeded 87 percent.
Nov 6, 2023 · WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The current U.S. Congress is on track to be the most polarized ever, according to a running analysis at , a tool widely used by political scientists that sorts...
Jun 26, 2024 · By many accounts, the current Congress, which began in 2023, is the most polarized in recent decades: its members on each side express more extreme policy views and vote with members of the other party on legislation less often. Bipartisan legislation seems—on almost all issues—a thing of the past.
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Jul 2, 2024 · In a 2021 study in the Journal of Politics, researchers found that when a person in one political party was asked what they think of someone in the other party, their answer was pretty negative....