Politicians do not need ideological differences to get into a fight, to be sure.
The issue has united Islamist parties, which have often had political and ideological differences with Jamaat-e-Islami.
While none of these groups and movements were 100% Wahhabi originally, their ideological differences were insignificant.
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Nor should the erosion of ideological differences be anything to regret or a reason for people not voting.
The feud is, according to aides, partly driven by small but significant ideological differences, partly fueled by personality.
These will collapse if there are significant ideological differences among the participating governments.
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But, for all their long-standing ideological differences, Messrs Ecevit and Bahceli have edged closer to the centre over the years.
However, there are other commentators who focus more on the ideological differences and potential conflicts that may ensue after Chavez's departure.
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Ideological differences will be sunk in a national drive to create jobs.
But should Kim Dae Jung emerge victorious, there may well be problems in policy formulation and implementation due to ideological differences within his alliance.
The announcement in December, saying that they were on their "way towards working for unity" surprised analysts, who pointed to the deep ideological differences between them.
In the interests of forming such a coalition, while highlighting his disputes with Feiglin, Netanyahu has sought to obfuscate his ideological differences with Kadima and Labor.
Arguably, there are more ideological differences within the party than with its rival, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which governed Japan for most of the half-century to 2009.
He does not have to contend with the same kind of fundamental ideological differences that FDR experienced with Southern Democrats on issues such as unionization and civil rights.
So the point is there should not be any inherent ideological differences that prevent Democrats and Republicans from making our economy more competitive with the rest of the world.
These two parties, together with former newsreader Yair Lapid's new Yesh Atid (There is a Future) party, represent a surplus of centrist groups with limited ideological differences among them.
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Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton have remarkably few ideological differences: they are both pragmatists who believe in working through diplomacy if possible but in resorting unhesitatingly to force if necessary.
While the White House and congressional leaders from both parties oppose sequestration, the approach for averting it has become the latest congressional showdown involving ideological differences over the size and role of government.
President Barack Obama would now encourage the bipartisan fiscal committee and members of Congress to "put our common commitment to a stronger recovery and a sounder long-term fiscal path above our political and ideological differences", said Mr Carney.
As soon as a potential prime minister looks like forming a government, other politicians flock to join behind him, unrestrained by ideological differences and desperate to avoid the ignominy of a five-year term on the opposition benches, with none of the rich pickings of ministerial office.
Carter, who did not have the same kind of deep ideological differences as FDR with the Democrats he offended, flooded Congress with unpopular proposals such as energy reform and the Panama Canal Treaty without also putting forth measures that would have bigger political rewards for incumbents seeking to keep voters happy.
With their backs to the wall, the seriously fractured Democratic Party (PD), and Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom Party (PDL) decided to bury their ideological differences and will now try to co-operate in a last-ditch attempt to remedy a social and economic crisis that threatened to get out of hand after an indecisive February election.
The problem that any ardent Blairite must confront is that there are no ideological grounds for taking on Mr Brown: the policy differences that divide him from Mr Blair, although real, are too nuanced and subtle to provide any.
And yet Rice's differences with the Democrats are not rooted in a great ideological clash.
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