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>> what concerns me about that is it can turn our houses of worship in little political action committees. why would anybody give money directly to a campaign and find it to be not tax exempt when they can give it to a sham church and moneyland are it. we don't want our houses of worship turned into political action committees. the american people are against the idea of churches being able to endorse candidates and being partisan because they don't think that's what churches are for. the one thing people like about a church is you can get away from the red/blue divide in the country. to allow...

Smaller share though still a majority in presidential elections and the non-white vote is growing, democrats have an advantage on that front. that's one factor. another factor is the red/blue divide. we take it for granted as this point yet the devisions between the two parties and the attitudes of the people who call themselves republicans or democrats are so powerful in the end they tell you how people are likely to vote as almost all the information we seek and have about them. that's at one level. alex, the other level is the process of campaigns. we saw things in 2012 that we are going to...

Account of world war i in the sense that we are into big time trench warfare here where people are tossing big bombs out there in terms of a lot of money and television advertising and everything. not gaining much ground in either direction. as dan said, we now have presidential elections that don't seem to resolve anything. i'm not naive about the way american politics works, but we used to think when there was a presidential election, certain questions would be answered about the direction of our society. >> yeah. >> we now have this incredibly expensive process that can be entertaining or v...

The campaign we all cover all the time. everything we talk about, every utterance, every gaffe, every debate, every movement. and that's part of politics and in many ways the interesting and enjoyable part of politics, but it's not necessarily the decisive part of politics. there are important and powerful underlying forces that effect every campaign. in 2012, one was the economy. would it be just good enough to allow president obama to win re-election or bad enough to deny re-election. another was voter anger. which direction would it go? a third was the deep red/blue divide and how that shap...

That were enunciated by governor romney and president obama. and in the end, what it told us about the country is that we are deeply divided and that the election in itself did not resolve many of the questions that were at the center of the debate. >> and do you think that the defining characteristic of this campaign was the philosophical divide or was it the way that the obama campaign used technology and data and ran circles around team romney? >> that is obvious ly important and i think that it is a harbinger of the way that campaigns will be run in the future. if there is a road map to wh...