Partisan Polarization
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Partisan polarization is the widening ideological distance and declining overlap between the two major parties.
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Fewer conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans hold office than in the mid-twentieth century.
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How far polarization extends to ordinary voters is disputed; the elite-level trend is well documented.
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