Abramowitz Polarized Public Analysis

Abramowitz and Polarization to date Over the duration of this course, we have also been undergoing our current primary presidential election race, as Abramowitz has expressed in “The Polarized Public?” the polarization, the divide, that separates individuals as well as certain groups of people from each other and their beliefs has been evident in these debates. Many such as Fiorina and his coauthors may express the situation to be on the contrary, but Abramowitz even mentions that Fiorina fails to acknowledge that in Americans today “sorting by party is actually an important contributor to the growing ideological polarization among the public and especially among the politically engaged public” (pg. XV, Abramowitz, A.), it is evident that
87, Abramowitz, A), according to ANES data in text for 2008. Whether you choose to single out states, counties or any other unit of measurement geographically, it is evident that the partisan divide is much deeper today as it was thirty or forty years ago. The red states and blue states seem to differ heavily in terms of “religious orientation”, the red states are the conservative, frequent churchgoers, as the blues are majority liberals who are not as frequent of churchgoers. According to a PEW article from 2013 “Those self-identifications reflect real and deepening divisions on a host of issues, the Pew Research report concluded: “Across 48 different questions covering values about government, foreign policy, social and economic issues and other realms, the average difference between the opinions of Republicans and Democrats now stands at 18 percentage points…”(Paragraph 4, Drew Desilver), thus signifying that the polarization has found deeper crevices to build upon. Most of what Abramowitz further details, the cultural divide, the geographic divide, the tea party movement all hold up as they explain how these factors have upheld the widening differences, the racial divide does not necessarily separate into reds and
After reading “The Polarized Public? Why American Government is so dysfunctional” and further looking upon the PEW research center as well as ANES data base Abramowitz seems to have categorized the factors that influence the polarization, and it seems that the divided in belief and opinions have widened, and are now deeply influential to political parties and government fundamentals, as the polarization is found in