all right. there is a political scientist named heath poole who has devised a metric for measuring polarization called dw nominate, a way of scoring votes to sort of figure out how polarized a legislative body is. in the house of representatives just to give a sense of what this looks like over time, what you see there is that we are extremely polarized. about the most we've been since 1879. what is interesting there is it's a symmetrical polarization. the democrats have moved left and republicans right. the slope of the line is much higher than the democrats so there's been a sharper veering up from the republicans to the right. also interestingly, congressman nolan, is that you see it begins right when you were in congress. you know, everyone can draw