"Why, the percentages won by each particular candidate has nothing to do with how polarized the electorate is. Two centrist candidates could easily split the vote 50/50, as could two candidates on radical extremes. Polarization refers to the shape of the electorate's preferences: is it a bell curve, large in the middle, is it relatively flat, or does it have a depression in the middle? Alternately, the answer may lie less in the electorate itself than in the candidates nominated by the two parties. Jimmy Carter's strongest support, even in 1980, was the conservative South."
- Worthless Snob
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