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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Primed for Partisanship | |
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| Sources of Partisan Polarization | |
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| Partisan Polarization in Congress | |
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| Polarization and Electoral Change | |
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| Is Polarization Confined to Activists? | |
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| Religion and Partisanship | |
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| Economic Equality and the Ideological Fragmentation of the News Media | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| To the White House Through Florida | |
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| �Compassionate Conservatism� | |
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| One of Us | |
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| The Campaigns | |
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| The Vote | |
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| Florida | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The First Two Years: Before and After 9/II | |
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| The Bush Agenda | |
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| Tactics | |
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| After September II | |
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| The 2002 Election | |
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| God's Instrument | |
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| Going to War in Iraq | |
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| The Case for War | |
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| Saddam and 9/II | |
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| The Public's Response | |
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| Bringing Congress on Board | |
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| Popular Support for a Discretionary War | |
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| Illusion, Disillusion, and Faith in the President After�Mission Accomplished� | |
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| Revising the Case for War | |
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| The Iraq Rally | |
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| Belief in the War's Premises | |
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| The Presidents Credibility | |
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| The Religious Factor | |
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| Faith in Bush | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The 2004 Election: Mobilized Bases, Reinforced Divisions | |
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| The Democratic Nomination | |
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| An Avalanche of Money | |
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| The War in the Campaigns | |
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| Opinion Leadership | |
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| Rational Ignorance? | |
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| Mobilizing Voters | |
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| The Vote | |
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| The Congress | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| President of Half the People | |
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| A Mandate? | |
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| The Campaign to Revamp Social Security | |
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| Why the Campaign Failed | |
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| The Bipartisan Consensus | |
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| Other Issues | |
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| The Terri Schiavo Case | |
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| Hurricane Katrina | |
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| The Iraq War in 2006 | |
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| Going Public Again on the War | |
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| The Tactical Component | |
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| The Democrats� Response | |
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| Intentional Polarization | |
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| The 2006 Midterm Elections | |
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| The Vote | |
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| A New Way Forward | |
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| The President's Response | |
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| The �New Way Forward� | |
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| Faulty Memories | |
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| Motivated Reasoning and Partisan Polarization | |
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| Selective Exposure | |
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| The Final Year | |
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| The Economic Crisis | |
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| The Bush Legacy in the 2008 Elections | |
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| Party Image | |
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| Individual Party Identification | |
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| Macropartisanship | |
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| New Voters | |
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| The President, the War, and the 2008 Nominations | |
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| The General Election | |
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| The Vote | |
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| The Congressional Elections | |
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| Conclusions and Speculations | |
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| Competing Realities | |
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| The Political Legacy | |
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| Obama's Inheritance | |
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| Appendix Data Sources and Question Wordings | |
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| Index | |