A nation that remains divided
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A lthough the final results, as in the 2000 election, will be delayed, US President George W. Bush has won a second term in office.
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Few campaigns in post-war American history have appeared to be as divisive as the one drawing to its still uncertain conclusion on Tuesday.
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Lebanon had not even finished burying the dead from 34 days of war when the country's deep sectarian and political divisions split open again. That has shattered the semblance of unity that held, just barely, through the Israeli attacks against Hezbollah.
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Early poll results in Bosnia suggest the country is split along ethnic lines on the issue of unification.
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The young nation is learning that democracy isn't easy as no party captured a majority in the country's parliamentary vote
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Kosovo could soon be Europe's  newest independent state, but the Albanian majority in Serbia's  breakaway province still has to decide on a name, a flag and an  anthem.
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Focus groups are hardly new to American politics, but they have taken on new relevance in a country where the ideological divide has grown into a chasm.
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The nation is emerging from the 2004 presidential election with two very different portraits of itself sketched by two very different halves of its population.
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People on both sides called for unity, but the anniversary of the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister, illustrated Lebanonâs deep divisions and tensions.
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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 United States is fighting a war in Iraq and Americans are divided over whether it&#39;s right. The war is a huge issue in the 2004 presidential election.
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These are not the best days in political life, on either side of the border that divides North America. Canadian politics is in an advanced state of drift, the Prime Minister and premiers posturing over competing
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One unfortunate outcome of Ukraine&#39;s disputed presidential election is that it has brought into stark relief an east-west divide within that large country.
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(CSM) - If Americans think they live in a politically divided nation, they should consider Israel. It&#39;s not a 50-50 split that&#39;s rending the country, but a virulent verbal attack from the religious right.
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John Edwards is right. There are two Americas, and they don&#39;t intersect. They don&#39;t even appear to understand each other. When I woke up on Nov. 3 and switched on the radio, that realization hit me like a ton of bricks.
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Palestinian society is splintered along deep political, geographic and ideological lines that will be exacerbated by the death of Arafat.
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Allies and enemies worried that the premierâs coalition would remain divided and vulnerable to another collapse.