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...leaders who have exemplified its outspoken and often divisive stands on issues such as gay marriage and abortion. Since the founding of the Moral Majority in 1979, the GOP has managed to link political and religious conservatives in a surprisingly successful electoral strategy based on these “wedge?? issues. But in turn, the rise of the Religious Right has deepened the gulf between secularists and believers...
...care, abortion, illegal immigration, school prayer, gay marriage, stem cell research, and virtually any other moral or social issue worth mentioning. What do these issues have in common? Only that they offer one party a clear electoral advantage. As we should all by now be aware, “wedge?? is politico-speak for “an issue which hurts our party and helps the other one.” Crying “wedge?? or “division” in politics is analogous to complaining that a debate opponent is being...
There are a whole host of negative connotations associated with the usage of the word “wedge?? in reference to a political debate. Most clearly, usage of the word “wedge?? suggests that the other side of the debate is interested only in electoral victory and not actually concerned with the question in hand as much as tweaking the issue to some form of narrow political advantage. Media preoccupation with the “horse race” between the two parties feeds into this and makes it increasingly harder to believe...
Alternately, usage of the word “wedge?? carries a somewhat darker connotation than mere political advantage-seeking. This is the current of thought that suggests politicians are trying to distract voters from the important economic issues at hand with dramatic and irresolvable moral questions, questions that government really has no business associating itself with in the first place...
Newsom argued that President Bush had used same-sex marriage, as well as stem cell research and abortion, as a political “wedge?? to advance his political career, and that these efforts helped him form his own opinions about marriage rights...