Poll: Country Has Two Visions for America

An almost unfathomable gap divides public attitudes on basic issues involving gender, race, religion and politics in America, according to a new ABC News/Fusion Network poll. While these issues divide a variety of Americans, this poll finds that the gaps in nearly all cases are largest among partisan and ideological groups -- so enormous and so fundamental that they seem to constitute visions of two distinctly different Americas. Partisan and ideological differences of 20, 30, 40 and even 50 points raise challenging questions of how political accommodation can occur in this country -- a consideration that may gain urgency in the aftermath of the 16-day partial government shutdown prompted by a political dispute over the new federal health care law, ABC News reports.