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To: JohnM who wrote (83651)	9/11/2008 9:49:22 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 542127

I don't wish to get into a one on one comparison, because there's plenty of material on both sides. I can tell you with a fair degree of certainty that politics have not changed all that much in the periods that I've studied. I'm particularly familiar with a period during the Civil War, when gun battles were probably fought over the naming of a city. The only thing that has changed is the mode of political communication. Today it is instantaneous, and therefore frequently poorly reasoned out.