Take the Northeast down to Virginia, add the west coast, throw in a couple of states around the great lakes, you have your division. The rest is the other country.

I remember a time when outside of the solid democratic south every other state was in play when it came to presidential elections. I've been working on my senate, house and presidential forecasts on another site, I find at the moment, only five states that can't be placed in one or the other column. Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. These are in my mind, as of today, the only toss up states on the map.

Polarization has become a fact of life in our politics today. We have in my opinion reached the point where political parties have become much more important than the country as a whole. So division may end up being the only remaining solution.

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.