That's hard to do in a democratic republic, especially one that is closely divided between right and left, as evidenced by the swings in election results between 2004 and 2006, 2008 and 2010 and 2010 and 2012--not to mention that 2012 re-elected both a Democratic president and a Republican House.
And Polish society is divided, left and right, both in politics and in religion.
It seems like the market is divided between two camps right now.
Outside spending on the race is roughly evenly divided between left and right, though conservatives have gained a slight edge recently, according to the Sunlight Foundation.
The religious right is divided over its relationship with mainstream politics, reliving, in a peculiar quirk of cultural history, the divisions that tore apart the radical student movement in the late 1960s.
The religious right is also divided over a more immediate issue: whether to rally behind Mr Bauer or Steve Forbes.
The new pontiff has walked a fine line politically in a country that has often been sharply divided between hard left and hard right.
For now, the Pinochet affair has united Chile's right-wing parties and divided the centre-left.
Power in the Senate, where it counts, was divided between Bersani and Berlusconi's center-right coalition, anchored by his party, Popolo della Liberta, or People of Freedom.
Not long ago, the great economist Milton Friedman (a right-leaning libertarian) touted the virtues of a divided government to my left-leaning colleague, Quentin Hardy, the Forbes Silicon Valley Bureau chief.
Not in today's Italy, where a right-wing prime minister's best ally is the divided opposition.
Instead, power in the Senate was divided between Bersani and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's center-right coalition, anchored by his party, Popolo della Liberta, or People of Freedom.
In the outgoing centre-right government, the Bavarian-based Christian Social Union argued that dual citizenship fostered divided loyalty.
Scouts leaders have been divided over gay rights since at least a 2000 Supreme Court decision that said the Scouts had the right to discriminate against gay members if doing so was a core belief of the group.
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