A statistical model developed by Professor Epstein and her colleagues, which incorporates newspaper editorials and other sources, suggests that confirmations have steadily grown more polarized over ideology in recent decades.
The governor now has an image that is seriously polarized by ideology, religiosity, and gender".
Knowledge and a talent for lawmaking are important, but so is an ability to raise campaign cash and advance the interests of political parties that have grown increasingly polarized — in their ideologies, donor bases, constituency groups and election-year messages.
We live in a society that has become increasingly polarized, where political ideology trumps common sense, where neighbors cannot see eye-to-eye on important issues because of their stubborn subscription to a particular set of views.
What I hope with all of my heart is that we work together to make this debate less polarized, less inflamed by ideology, more informed by evidence, so we can sit down across the table, across the aisle from one another, and find ways to keep our communities safe while protecting constitutional rights.
They wear polarized sunglasses, not polarized vests.
Instead of targeting the middle of the spectrum — where users are generally quieter and generally less strictly partisan in their views — these actors can engage with polarized communities, gain their trust and introduce new or exacerbating ideologies.
The Sinhalese and the Tamils, he said, were more polarized than ever—"two separate peoples with divergent and mutually incompatible ideologies, consciousness, and political goals"—and he concluded, ominously, "There are borderlines to patience and expectations.
The Sinhalese and the Tamils, he said, were more polarized than ever — "two separate peoples with divergent and mutually incompatible ideologies, consciousness, and political goals" — and he concluded, ominously, "There are borderlines to patience and expectations.
I hope that President Bush and Congress will look not only at the ratios of the Supreme Court when making their decisions, but also at the arguments, ideology and questions this woman constructed, bringing balance to a polarized court.
