Recommended: Americans Aren't As Divided As You Think

Politico has a good article today by Ken Stern: American's Aren't As Divided As You Think. We certainly have extremists - both liberal and conservative - in this country, but the majority of the population is more moderate.  The problem is that the extremists on both wings of the political spectrum dominate the news, both mainstream news and social media, so it looks like there is far more discord than there actually is. That and the fact that politicians on both ends of the political spectrum seem to think they need to pander to the most extreme in their base in order to get re-elected has produced an impression that isn't apparently quite correct.  There certainly are disagreements on some policies, bu apparently not nearly as much disagreement as an outsider would expect from the daily drumbeat of hyperventilating news reports.