Still, the differences, in both ideological and dollar terms, are more than enough to create political friction on the campaign trail this year as well as in Washington.
We will need to notice particularly the historical differences in the ideological use of these tropes at the end of the nineteenth century, and since the mid-twentieth century.
I don't see much difference in the ideological function of this and Katy Perry launching fireworks out of her breasts they're just two vague myths of empowerment that offer little more than passive visual titillation, framed differently for two very different world views.
But "large numbers of people who'd like to travel home for the holiday are not interested in ideological differences," Mr. Wyden said.
Long campaigns don't just irritate voters, they introduce more money into elections and, as Glenn Greenwald pointed out last go-round, they can result in ideological differences being erased in the name of electorate-ready talking points.
There's a long history of bad blood between the two unions, rooted in ideological differences over whether nurses should all be in their own union (says the CNA) or whether nurses should be part of the biggest healthcare union in the country (says SEIU).
Consistent with other research, we found predictable ideological differences in views of Obama and George W. Bush.
That is a thorny enough issue as it is, given regional and ideological differences in Congress.
"There can be ideological differences in general, as well as reversals on specific issues," he said.
But this nostalgic lament overstates the ideological differences in 1948 and understates the substantive gap between, say, Richard Nixon and George McGovern in 1972 or Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale in 1984.
