Republicans and Democrats Actually Agree on Facts
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June 18 (Bloomberg) -- “You are entitled to your ownopinion, but not to your own facts.” This quotation, oftenattributed to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, rightly suggests thatwhile it is perfectly legitimate for people to have differentpolitical views, they should not be making up the facts.
Yet a lot of survey evidence seems to suggest thatDemocrats and Republicans sharply disagree about facts, not justopinions.