<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/796fd386-d728-4ea3-98a0-c97bcce71d58/D323E1F1-1D4F-438B-B7B3-E3820C1F888C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802180.html?wpisrc=newsletter" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802180.html?wpisrc=newsletter" style="font-size: 11px;">www.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802180.html?wpisrc=newsletter"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.washingtonpost.com/img/6546AD92-F5E4-4689-B4CF-DB497C39C5B6" alt="washingtonpost.com" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802180.html?wpisrc=newsletter"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.washingtonpost.com/img/E498D725-9C03-4EF4-A915-95A8A683C0D9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802180.html?wpisrc=newsletter"><H1>My Team vs. Your Team: The Political Arena Lives Up to Its Name</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802180.html?wpisrc=newsletter"><FONT size="2"> <DIV id="byline">By <A title="Send an e-mail to Shankar Vedantam" href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/shankar+vedantam/">Shankar Vedantam</A></DIV> Monday, September 29, 2008; Page A06 </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802180.html?wpisrc=newsletter"><P> With America divided right down the middle for the third presidential election in a row, most people would not be surprised to hear that Democratic and Republican partisans perceive a widening gap between their presidential choices. In 2004, for example, die-hards in both parties felt that the choice between <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/George+W.+Bush?tid=informline">George W. Bush</A> and <A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/John+Kerry?tid=informline">John F. Kerry</A> was much sharper on a host of issues than in any presidential contest going back to 1984. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802180.html?wpisrc=newsletter"><P> But when political scientist Marc J. Hetherington quizzed moderates, he found to his surprise that he got the opposite answer. Compared with party loyalists, moderates saw far less difference between the candidates. 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