A Divider Not a Uniter: Outsiders or Insiders

by Jacobson; Gary

• ISBN13: 9780205776030
• ISBN10: 0205776035
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-06-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Updated in a new 2 nd edition, this book relies on hard data to analyze the reasons why the public has always been - and even today continues to be - divided along party lines about George W. Bush. As part of the "Great Questions in Political Science" series it is written by one of the most respected scholars and writers in political science.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Primed for Partisanship	p. 15
Sources of Partisan Polarization	p. 17
Partisan Polarization in Congress	p. 17
Polarization and Electoral Change	p. 18
Is Polarization Confined to Activists?	p. 28
Religion and Partisanship	p. 32
Economic Equality and the Ideological Fragmentation of the News Media	p. 36
Conclusion	p. 37
To the White House Through Florida	p. 38
ôCompassionate Conservatismö	p. 39
One of Us	p. 40
The Campaigns	p. 42
The Vote	p. 44
Florida	p. 48
Conclusion	p. 54
The First Two Years: Before and After 9/II	p. 55
The Bush Agenda	p. 56
Tactics	p. 58
After September II	p. 63
The 2002 Election	p. 69
God's Instrument	p. 72
Going to War in Iraq	p. 75
The Case for War	p. 79
Saddam and 9/II	p. 80
The Public's Response	p. 82
Bringing Congress on Board	p. 86
Popular Support for a Discretionary War	p. 88
Illusion, Disillusion, and Faith in the President AfterôMission Accomplishedö	p. 93
Revising the Case for War	p. 95
The Iraq Rally	p. 98
Belief in the War's Premises	p. 107
The Presidents Credibility	p. 113
The Religious Factor	p. 115
Faith in Bush	p. 118
Conclusion	p. 121
The 2004 Election: Mobilized Bases, Reinforced Divisions	p. 122
The Democratic Nomination	p. 123
An Avalanche of Money	p. 127
The War in the Campaigns	p. 128
Opinion Leadership	p. 131
Rational Ignorance?	p. 135
Mobilizing Voters	p. 138
The Vote	p. 141
The Congress	p. 148
Aftermath	p. 150
President of Half the People	p. 152
A Mandate?	p. 153
The Campaign to Revamp Social Security	p. 154
Why the Campaign Failed	p. 157
The Bipartisan Consensus	p. 162
Other Issues	p. 163
The Terri Schiavo Case	p. 164
Hurricane Katrina	p. 165
The Iraq War in 2006	p. 168
Going Public Again on the War	p. 174
The Tactical Component	p. 182
The DemocratsÆ Response	p. 186
Intentional Polarization	p. 190
The 2006 Midterm Elections	p. 192
The Vote	p. 195
A New Way Forward	p. 198
The President's Response	p. 204
The ôNew Way Forwardö	p. 207
Faulty Memories	p. 212
Motivated Reasoning and Partisan Polarization	p. 215
Selective Exposure	p. 219
The Final Year	p. 225
The Economic Crisis	p. 226
The Bush Legacy in the 2008 Elections	p. 230
Party Image	p. 231
Individual Party Identification	p. 237
Macropartisanship	p. 238
New Voters	p. 244
The President, the War, and the 2008 Nominations	p. 251
The General Election	p. 255
The Vote	p. 257
The Congressional Elections	p. 261
Conclusions and Speculations	p. 266
Competing Realities	p. 270
The Political Legacy	p. 273
Obama's Inheritance	p. 279
Appendix Data Sources and Question Wordings	p. 285
Index	p. 290
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