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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