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State of the Nation: A Divisive Agenda

As the final House vote on health care confirmed, Congress is starkly polarized over President Obama’s agenda. A poll shows similar divisions among the rest of us.

Stephen Ansolabehere

  • June 1, 2010

Stephen Ansolabehere

Stephen Ansolabehere is Professor of Government at Harvard University and coauthor of Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming. 

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