Two notions of politics split the electorate
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KIEV Last Friday, the Supreme Court of Ukraine reversed the Central Election Commission&#39;s declaration of Viktor Yanukovich as president and called for the second round of the nation&#39;s presidential balloting to be repeated on Dec. 26.
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The election reveals a worrisome divide among the country's voters  -  and a predeliction for show over substance in the winning party
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Conservative clothes found eager adherents on both sides of the party divide in 2004.
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It is an axiom of the two presidential campaigns that their candidates offer a stark choice about America's role in the world.
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A deeply divided electorate and fraud-ridden ballot counting awards neither candidate a majority in a closely contested presidential election.
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Polarized voters, almost perfectly divided between the two parties &#151; and the balance of power hanging on hard-fought, expensive campaigns in a few key areas. It's the story line of the 2004 presidential election, but it's also playing out in the battle for power in state legislatures, where Democratic and Republican control has probably never been so evenly divided.
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The political terrain favors Republicans, but personal dynamics in some races favor Democrats.
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Voters in two states a continent apart were choosing among Republican and Democratic candidates for president in contests shadowed by racial politics and the threat of recession.
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Mirroring national rift within party, many D.C. area households are torn between Clinton, Obama.
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Sometimes, the two concepts can blur.
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This presidential election has been described by many as one in which morality mattered most to voters. But that perception may be driven at least partially by how pollsters asked voters about their priority issues.
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When Louisiana held its congressional elections two years ago, both parties canvassed for voters in the traditional way, dropping a pair of volunteers at one end of a block so they could work door-to-door to the other end. The system was as thorough as a census.
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As the two parties brace for the coming debate over restructuring Social Security, polls and focus groups for both sides have shown that voters -- especially older ones, who vote in disproportionately heavy numbers -- distrust any change that has the word "private" attached to it.
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New insight into how Americans perceive the interaction between religion and politics.
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If voters in Colorado decide to divide their electoral votes, we may have another contested election
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One of the two democratic campaigns will end up with a fresh sense of possibility, the other with a sense of opportunity lost.
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The view from suburban Philadelphia voters about politics and politicians: