All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.
Copy Quote View & ShareBut presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.
Copy Quote View & ShareIn addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
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