Letter: Gap between parties, supporters keeps widening

Published: Monday, Sept. 10 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan are on stage with their wives Ann Romney and Janna Ryan at the end of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.

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These past few weeks I have watched both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. In both I have heard supporters chanting "U.S.A." This simply confuses me.

Both parties seem to be living in their own countries. There is an enormous divide. Can we not have one? Can we not get along? Worse, still, is the fact that President Barrack Obama received cheers for declaring multiple times that he would never let this or this happen, shortly after proclaiming that he wanted a compromise. There will be no compromise. It seems the gap will just keep widening.

Stephen Brown

Ogden

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Esquire

Springville, UT

The Democrats haven't changed a whole lot, shifting a little bit to the right perhaps. It's the Republicans who have really veered to the extreme right, not only losing touch with the people, but becoming strident and uncompromising. Those More..

6:09 a.m. Sept. 10, 2012
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Baron Scarpia

Logan, UT

Sen. McConnell said that the GOP's job was to make sure Obama was a one-term president. Consequently, the policy of the party has been to say "no" to anything Obama attempted to do and to refuse to allow the president any bipartisan More..

6:42 a.m. Sept. 10, 2012
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liberal larry

salt lake City, utah

I totally disagree with this letter. The American left has had little change over the last 30 years, if you look at the DNC platform for Jimmy Carter, it is probably about the same as the Democratic 2012 platform. If anything the average Democrat More..

6:55 a.m. Sept. 10, 2012
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