IN THE WEEKS, months, indeed years of exhausting campaigning, speechifying, and punditizing leading up to a presidential election–exhausting, that is, from the voters’ point of view–and in a particular contest in our nation’s history when the rhetoric has been especially, er, tart–I was wondering the other day whether we Americans have ever agreed on anything, large or small, and my answer was: No; I don’t think so.

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