She might be encouraged by the work of ProLife, ProObama, a group that aims to support social programs reducing the need for abortion, as opposed to pursuing a legislative agenda, which, its Web site says, "has intensified the division and partisanship around this issue, but has little effect at reducing the abortion rate itself".
Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, said, "Because people's passions are higher now than at any time during the election, it's a tough road to navigate without the vice president first saying, 'It's time for us to move forward.' " Asked if Republicans miscalculated by stirring passions among Democrats, Mr. Brownback said: "There's been over-partisanship all around.
ALL the partisanship that swirled around the census did not so much surprise Mr. Prewitt as confound him.
Yes, politicians can overcome partisanship and unite around something: making New York state the next yogurt capital.
Voters' midterm preferences are often driven more by partisanship than by policy, and this time around, Trump's presence is likely to cast a heavy shadow over the results.
Presidents in the first year of their first term are often at the peak of their popularity, have the biggest margins in Congress, and are free from the scandals and intense partisanship that start to gather around them later and make governing ever more difficult.
Call them the nihilists or the political paranoids, but Austin and the surrounding areas of Texas are the cultural centre for a certain brand of paranoid politics that stretches far beyond partisanship and sees enemies and conspiracies around every corner.
The fault lines of American politics do not tend to fall around gender, but rather partisanship and ideology.
"It's all relative around here in terms of partisanship," Mr. Levin said.
"There's always partisanship," Lorman said, as Compas and her entourage gathered around her. "When I was first elected in 1980, I thought: It's them against us.
Inevitably, partisanship colored some attitudes; the transcendent, nearly universal rallying around President George W. Bush in the days and weeks after Sept. 11 seems almost quaint in retrospect.
