Welcome to Left, right and Center, everybody.

I'm David Green here with Sarah Isker, senior editor at the dispatch,

and Moelaythe, Executive Director at Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service.

Well, during this recent election, and I mean, we should say for the last several election cycles,

there is a narrative that has taken hold in our country.

There's a reason why Americans are more polarized than ever.

America's divisions are on troubling display.

America is a house divided, and in many ways it always has been.

We have all heard how divided we are, but actually according to a brand new poll,

taken after election day, Americans see their country as somewhat less polarized.

We're talking about the battleground civility poll that is run by your institute at Georgetown, Mo.

It's conducted by a Republican and Democratic pollster.

And when it comes to how much polarization Americans feel on a scale of zero to 100,

voters gave an average score of 66.5, which still high, but it's actually the lowest score since

2019. So what is happening? Yeah. And to put it in context, zero being no political division at all,

100 being edge of civil war.

Extreme.

Ever since we started asking this question back in 2019, the mean score has been in the low to mid-70s,

meaning that most Americans thought we were nearly three-quarters of the way to civil war.

And so we went into the field to poll after this last election and was a little surprised to see that this is the lowest we have seen since, I mean, look, still 66, right?

People think we're two-thirds of the way instead of three-quarters of the way.

That's not 100% optimistic, but it is, it does feel like people think we're two-thirds of the way instead of three-quarters of the way. That's not 100% optimistic, but it is, does feel like people think the temperature is being turned down just a little bit. And when you ask them, where do you think it'll be a year from now? The

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