About: "A House Divided" G. Terry Madonna & Michael L.Young

“Most attention in the bruising battle to adopt the recently enacted Pennsylvania budget focused on whether the state budget passed on time.  It did. 

But a story far more important than budget passage itself was largely missed in covering the late night, last- minute theatrics now de rigueur with state budgets. That story poignantly revealed to those watching the deep polarization that now exists within the Pennsylvania legislature…”  

"What happened can be summed up in a single word: “partisanship”-- pervasive, prevalent, pernicious, partisanship--more intense than any in modern times.  Partisanship also has polarized not only Republicans from Democrats, but likewise the state house from the state senate, ominously mirroring the same toxic partisanship so virulently widespread in the U.S. Congress."  

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A House Divided 

July 8, 2013 

G. Terry Madonna & Michael L.Young

I believe the division between extremist Republicans and everyone else will increase in the near future. I can't be sure and I could be wrong but there seem to be more young Republican local office holders of "Tea Party Patriot" persuasion in Chester County. The younger local office holders on school boards and municipal government are the future candidates in statewide and federal elections.

For the next decade or so I can see the Republican Party growing even more extreme. Whether the voters will put them in office or not is too be determined.

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"Politically Uncorrected is published twice monthly.  Dr. G. Terry Madonna is Professor of Public Affairs and Director of the Franklin & Marshall College Poll (formerly the Keystone Poll) at Franklin & Marshall College, and Dr. Michael Young is Managing Partner of Michael Young Strategic Research."