Study: Partisan Voters Treat Politics like Sports Rivalries (VIDEO)

University of Kansas

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Patrick Miller, a KU assistant professor of political science, discusses his new study (http://bit.ly/1CKbTJW) that found average Republicans and Democrats both treat politics like sports rivalries instead of focusing on issues. The study is the first to find that partisanship drives intense hatred in politics, instead of differences in ideology.

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