Show-Me Pocket Change

Miller-McCune has an article in their new blog “The Idea Lobby” that really startled me.

Basically, their graphing of political leanings in Congress that barely meet in the middle, while blades of concentration, both on the right and left, spread apart from one another.

I think it’s easy to see this impasse playing out, but it is a wonder.

From the article:

The full data suggests that this is not just a polarized moment in politics, but the most polarized the legislature has been in more than a century.