Polarization Over War, Bush, Parties Confronts Voters

From The Washington Post:

American politics this year has been running on two divergent tracks. The first is intensified partisan combat in advance of a critical midterm election. The second is growing disaffection among many voters with a national capital seen as stalemated by polarization and distrust between the two political parties.

Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner have been testing themes that include lowering the temperature of political rhetoric.

Simon Rosenberg, founder of the Democratic group NDN that has sought to be a bridge between centrist Democrats and the more liberal world of bloggers and Internet activists, said: "Lieberman's calculation here that there is a revulsion against Washington is not correct. There's revulsion at Republican governance."