Talk:Wedge issue

message: This page needs cleaning up in terms of language and content. A lot of the expression is messy.
Also, while the example of the Tampa is perfect for a study of wedge politics, the way it has been worded (e.g., referring to the people on the boat as refugees rather than asylum seekers) is politically loaded. El T 14:39, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

message: Hi!! It is now 2020, there is a global pandemic and the issue of wedge politics is more important than ever. I will work on updating this article with information regarding the history of wedge politics, as well as cases which have taken place since the article's last edit. I will begin by tackling the recent use of wedge politics during the Covid-19 pandemic, specifically the US anti-quarantine protests and work backwards from there.
I would also argue that the article's importance level should be raised given the Trump administration's constant use of wedge politics.--Cinaminamon (talk) 18:48, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion of a possible article expansion 

message: Following the definition of wedge politics according to this article - would it be a sufficient idea to put the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) in here as a wedge issue? It split the LNP base significantly and caused the leadership shakeup of November/December 2009  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.123.26 (talk) 09:00, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emissions Trading Scheme  in Australia 

message: Wouldn't that also be a potential wedge issue? The opinions are divided within most parties, and being a drug issue, most people probably have a strong feeling about the problem. I'm not sure whether the topic has been used for wedge politics before, but it's bound to come up again soon and I'd guess it will be during the next presidential elections. --84.226.109.178 (talk) 13:47, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legalization of Cannabis 

message: This article would benefit greatly from information and/or examples of first-use, if not very early-use, of the technique.  For example, was it invented for the Southern Strategy and perfected by Rove?  Or, was this used way back when... by the ancient Greeks or Romans?  Arbalest Mike (talk) 14:24, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Use 

message: The following sentence:
"In 2012, internal National Organization for Marriage memos dating to 2009 were released that stated that they sought "to drive a wedge between gays and blacks" by promoting "African American spokespeople for marriage", thus provoking same-sex marriage supporters into "denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots", and to "interrupt" the "assimilation" of Latinos into "dominant Anglo culture" by making the stance against same-sex marriage "a key badge of Latino identity""
Segues strangely from a discussion of black spokespeople into Latinos - what do the Latinos have to do with the African-Americans in the first clause? Haven't got time to read the sources and correct this, but perhaps either correct the obvious mistake or clarify the logical link between the groups in the earlier and later clauses here...?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.222.120.26 (talk) 11:23, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Black/Latino wedge

message: What do people think of Brexit in the 2019 General Election as a wedge issue? It certainly cut through traditional party support and resulted in the Conservatives picking up votes and areas that would not traditionally have voted Conservative. Melias C (talk) 17:54, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 2019 UK General Election and Brexit as a Wedge Issue? 

message: Under an article that reads like (an admittedly rather insightful) Machiavelli’s handbook-
Related Articles: “Jews in American Politics”.
Really guys?? It’s late and I’ve only scanned the bits of the article I didn’t read, but I’m pretty sure that’s only related if you’re a bigot. 95.149.63.55 (talk) 00:44, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antisemitism in ‘related articles’?