"The record is clear. Identity politics is at the core of Judge Sotomayor's self-definition."

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Perhaps most hopeful of all, the first studies of the results show signs of a shift away from identity politics, in which voters lump together by caste or religion to back one of their own.

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Rather than focus on health care or Iraq, as previous debates have, the moderators threw an odd bag of unexpected identity-politics questions at the candidates for a full hour, before turning to high-minded policy.

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Yet some voters are beginning to drift away from the rigid identity politics of old.

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