09 July 2019
By Ryan Warner
An online quiz from the nonprofit More in Common shows the taker how their perception of the other political party may be off. Listen to the interview with Research Director Stephen Hawkins and hear reactions to the quiz from Coloradans here.
25 June 2019
By David Harsanyi
In his new book, “Fall,” the celebrated sci-fi author Neal Stephenson envisions a future United States split between the violent, gun-toting, uneducated, cross-burning religious fanatics of bullet-ridden “Ameristan” and the peaceful, educated, secular denizens of the nation’s Blue enclaves, where decorum and truth always prevail.
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25 June 2019
By Brian Stelter
The warping power of partisan media
The group More in Common is out with a new study that asserts "Americans have a deeply distorted understanding of each other." The group says "Americans are less divided than most of us think," but there is a "Perception Gap" that's hurting all of us. And the news media doesn't help: "We found that the more news people consumed, the larger their Perception Gap."
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24 June 2019
By Rana Foroohar
When you ask Democrats and Republicans alike about the political viewpoints of the opposing camp, they tend to exaggerate the differences. But if you want the least biased viewpoint, talk to an uneducated Democrat. That's one of the many fascinating findings from a new study entitled "The Perception Gap: How False Impressions are Pulling Americans Apart" done by the international non-profit group More in Common, which studies political attitudes in the US and Europe.
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24 June 2019
By David French
The More in Common project has just released the results of its latest deep dive into American polarization, and they make for a deeply discouraging read. It turns out that most Americans have fundamentally mistaken notions about their political opponents, consistently believing that they are substantially more extreme than they really are.
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24 June 2019
By James Freedman
The good news is that people who disagree with you about politics aren’t nearly as unreasonable as you think. The bad news is that you are going to have a very hard time learning about them—unless of course you decide to talk to them. These are the findings of a new study suggesting that news media and academic institutions generally aren’t providing the straight story.
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23 June 2019
By Yasha Mounk
Americans often lament the rise of “extreme partisanship,” but this is a poor description of political reality: Far from increasing, Americans’ attachment to their political parties has considerably weakened over the past years.
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22 June 2019
By Amanda Ripley
Last year, a group of liberal Jewish New Yorkers flew to Michigan to meet a group of conservative Christian corrections officers. It was an improbable experiment in bridging the political divide, arranged by a labor organizer from New York who happened to know both groups. I came along to see what would happen.
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