This strategy of polarising the electorate, playing to core supporters and vilifying opponents has been effective.
An old-established two-party system is giving way to a far more polarising class divide.
The biggest danger for such a polarising president was that his base would desert him.
The man entrusted with eliminating it, Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the labour minister, is a polarising figure.
No doubt America hasn't heard the last of such a colourful and polarising figure.
The euro zone's debt crisis is polarising the politics of austerity and economic pain.
They hope that her resignation has opened a space for a less polarising and more competent candidate.
But he pitched a more inclusive and less polarising political platform than both Mr Nkrumah and Mr Rawlings.
Mr Thaksin lives abroad after being ousted in a coup in 2006, but remains a polarising figure in Thailand.
These Tunisians are desperate to avoid the polarising chaos that has plagued other countries in the region, in particular Egypt.
The trouble with using such a reference albeit in heavy quotation marks is that such rhetoric has an almost automatic polarising effect.
Travel the pot-holed roads of Nicaragua's backlands, and it would be easy to believe that this is indeed a polarising election.
Mrs Clinton has plenty of assets that compensate for her polarising reputation.
Observers from the European security organisation OSCE said that "despite a very polarising campaign the Georgian people have freely expressed their will".
The most common worry about Mrs Clinton, apart from her husband's extra-curricular activities, is that she is simply too polarising a candidate to win.
He has spent most of his time and advertising budget talking about the economy, rather than the more polarising social issues that often arose in the primaries.
In death, as in life, he remains a polarising figure, and nowhere more so than in the community where relatives of the police officers he killed still live alongside Kelly's own descendants.
In other southern states big urban and minority populations hold sway in Democratic primaries, pulling candidates to the left of the general electorate and highlighting polarising issues such as race and immigration.
Though the abortion debate is one of the most polarising in the US, the film tried to present the doctors' work without the political context, shooting the film in a fly-on-the-wall style without comment.
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But having deliberately turned the vote into a polarising plebiscite on his rule, resulting in a record turnout for a regional election of 65%, the president has more cause for concern at the result than his opponents.
But on Tuesday this most polarising of Chinese politicians literally bowed out from public life after delivering his 10th and final annual "state of the union" address and announcing an economic growth target this year of 7.5 per cent.
As one strategist for the Nepali Congress, the largest of the democratic parties, admitted, the Maoists' interests lie in further polarising Nepali politics, whereas the stated aim of the parties is to build a democratic consensus on the middle ground.
Instead of having spectacles with a crude red filter for one eye and green for the other, the Real D system relies on circularly polarised light with one lens polarising the light to the left, and the other to the right.
The results of this study contributed to a collective reflection on how media coverage in the sub-region is not reaching adequate journalism standards and is rather functioning as a polarising instrument that does not benefit the citizens of these countries.
Moreover, if, as seems likely, Mr Howard's campaign continues to emphasise polarising issues, such as immigration, it could energise anti-Tory sentiment in the marginals, allowing Labour again to do much better in terms of seats than its national vote share.
For all his popularity, Mr Erdogan is a polarising figure who, in his second term, has lost the support of many Turkish liberals and intellectuals who once saw him as a democratic pioneer, pushing back the militaristic state that ruled the country for most of the 20th Century.
"Our team felt that the potential polarising reactions from sub-segments of the alumni base, student body, and our supporters, might put Mr Modi in a compromising position, which we would like to avoid at all costs, especially in the spirit of our conference's purpose, " the Wharton India Economic Forum said in a statement quoted by the Press Trust of India news agency.
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