and rising case, president biden detailed his strategy for what could be a difficult winter in a speech today. while he maintained that there is no need to panic about omicron yet, he stressed the importance of adults getting their booster shots as soon as possible, announcing expanded pharmacy availability and outreach. he also announced a big effort to expand free at-home testing, which could be a game change fer more people had the ability to test themselves before possibly exposing other people to covid. and in light of omicron, international travelers who l have to have a negative test within one day of traveling to the u.s. biden optimistically asked america to come together to fight this epidemic. this is a moment where we can put the divisives behind us, i hope. this a moment we can do what we haven t been able to do enough of through this whole pandemic, get the nation to come together, unite the nation in a common purpose. to fight this fire, to protect one another, to prot
i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. that s not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that we re more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, there s a lot of reasons. and what s interesting is that it shows that not only are we more divided politically but also seeing a growing middle. you know, a grow withing number of folks not aligning themselves entirely with the democratic party or the republican party. i think what you see is frustration out there right now on how to lead forward. i think you might be able to tie in the fact that social media has become so prevalent in helping organize people, you know, ten years ago we didn t have facebook or twitter or t