2024 Election Politics: How Divided Are We Really? Kate Carney and John Geer

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Partisan divides are as deep as ever. Most Americans are exhausted by the dysfunction and divisions in American politics. Some scholars claim the country is on the brink of civil war. But several recent polls suggest that clear majorities of voters agree on many issues. We dive into the data from two different groups that study American attitudes and beliefs. Kate Carney is chief of staff for the nonpartisan research organization, More in Common. Her work aims to help build strong communities for a strong country. John Geer is a professor of political science and leads the Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy. He discusses findings from Vanderbilt’s which tracks trust in institutions and democracy. Hear some of their surprising findings on this episode of "Let's Find Common Ground".

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0:00.0	Americans are deeply divided about politics and many of us are totally fed up with the way public policies discussed and dealt with by our political system.
0:09.0	That's the bad news.
0:11.0	But dive into the true state of public opinion and you'll find some
0:15.2	surprises. That's part of what we want to talk about. So if you're part of this
0:20.7	exhaustive majority who may not see their views represented in what we call the wings,
0:25.2	kind of the more polarizing opposite ends of the political spectrum.
0:28.5	And it's a pretty toxic fight in there. You don't have a lot of incentive to want to jump into that that's a pretty
0:33.9	exhausting space to be in. Our podcast is Let's Find Common Ground. I'm Richard Davies.
0:55.0	And I'm Ashley Melnite.
0:57.0	You know, some of our most interesting episodes are about what liberals and conservatives get wrong, about the
1:05.0	the liberals and conservatives get wrong, about the other side.
1:06.0	We're going to dive into the data from two different groups that study American attitudes and beliefs.
1:11.0	Kate Carney is chief of staff for the Nonprofit Research Organization more in common.
1:17.0	Her work aims to help build strong communities for a strong country.
1:23.0	John Gier is a professor of political science and leads the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy.
1:30.0	He discusses findings from Vanderbilt's Unity Index, which tracks trust in institutions and democracy.
1:37.0	Here's our interview, recorded in the spring of last year.
1:41.0	John Gere and Kate Carney, thanks so much for joining us on Let's Find Common Ground.
1:45.0	Happy to be here.
1:46.0	Yeah, great to be here.
1:48.0	Thank you.
1:50.0	So John, let's start with you.
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