3 In 10 Americans Named Political Polarization As A Top Issue Facing the Country

3 In 10 Americans Named Political Polarization As A Top Issue Facing the Country

In this piece from FiveThirtyEight, authors Geoffrey Skelley and Holly Fuong, in collaboration with Ipsos, provide a lot of deep data on the state of political polarization in America — much of which was borne out in the midterm elections. Interestingly, while these divisions are deep, 62 percent of Americans still want leadership to actively reduce political polarization.

“I feel like I have to just kind of read up on what people are saying and what people are doing and try to figure out who’s the least extreme, who I side with. [To make the U.S. less polarized,] I think [we need] cooperation and collaboration between everybody, politicians and people in general,” said Sara from Alabama.