In chapter 7, “Religion and Public Opinion,” Wald and Calhoun-Brown write, “partisanship and political animosity seem to be at an all-time high” (p. 167). In the same breath, they challenge this characterization. They write, “However, examining the distribution of public opinion helps to highlight the limits of these characterizations and expose them as gross oversimplifications,
especially around issues of policy” (p. 168).
A. Explain the authors’ defense of this statement.