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Fringes. all of that is true. gerrymandering is playing a role and media polarization the biggest driver or all and self-sorting. were making a conscious choice to live with the like minded. thats gerrymandering and thats problematic. "don lemon tonight" starts now. don? >> i thought i was brave, right? youre so brave to read those comments. i hear you on "smerconish" on the weekend and your radio show. why are you so brave? why do you do it? i get a lot out of it. >> i get a kick out of it. the...

Welcome back. "data download" time. a closer look at the rising gas prices. you might think of them as something that impacts every american, but if you look closely, you can see the democratings and republicans are experiencing this years pain at the pump a bit differently. this is a real-life unintentional impact of the self-sorting that has come to define modern-american politics. it will explain why the two parties seem to be focusing on the issue with different urgency. the average gas pric...

2022. there it is, what are we looking at with a progressive increase in red and blue, but mostly red. >> over the last hcentury, wev seen a self-sorting of the electorate, to the vast majority of americans living in partisan echo chambers. what that means over time, weve got an entire generation of kids growing up in the country with limited exposure at best to alternative points of view, both in terms of communities where theyre growing up and the media thats present there. and i believe over ...

Media and they fill campaign coffers in time for the next election. dysfunction has many causes, not only the fire brands to whom we doctor ceded our national debate, but also gerrymandering and self sorting, a lack of campaign finance reform, closed primaries, even the instability of social media. there is no silver bullet to fix what ails us. but more sits zcitizen particip would help. one potential positive effect? a record number of new candidates have been signing up to run for office. many...

Shot and nothing changed. part of that because there are many factors driving our discourse, institutional factors or nothing will change. sure, it begins with the politics. the way we select those individuals limits the candidate pool, the role of dark money, closed primaries, gerrymandering, self-sorting and the outsized role of media personalities who are rewarded for bombast, not substance. their livelihoods depend on fomenting division, not diplomacy. dont go looking to them to lead. while ...

I want to throw a couple things out here that we havent gotten into. more is from our poll to show you the racial divide in this country. among all white voters, this week, this is donald trumps worst week yet. look at this, hillary clinton has a higher negative rating on all white voters than donald trump. i think that tells you theres a structural -- theres a structure here, theres a floor that donald trump -- >> thats when we talk about trump will get 35%. its literally almost structurally im...

So these are very isolated districts. if you look at the demographics within those districts, theyre trending very different from the rest of america. in that sense they are safe, noncompetitive districts. and that means that theyre not under the sway of the leadership. again, if you think about the 80 or so republicans that are members of this kind of shutdown caucus behind what were going through right now. >> yeah. >> they represent only a third of the republican caucus and less than 20% of t...

Reason why. the cook political report examined all 435 congressional districts in its new partisan voter index and found that geographic self-sorting, even more than redistricting, has driven polarization. there are now only 90 congressional districts in the whole country that are considered swing districts. thats down 45% from 1998 when the country had 164 swing districts. and while redistricting accounting for some of that change, the study found in districts that werent redrawn, the electorat...

Over the top. all sides need to agree the climate has been calamitous and words have consequences. many said on wednesday that the baseball field shooting will be a game changer, no pun intended. that would be nice, but pardon my pessimism. six years ago congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot outside a safe way in arizona, and similar sentiments were said, but nothing changed. thats partly due to the fact there are many factors driving our discourse. institutional factors that need fixing or ...

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