Comment by fancyfredbot

I took it as a comment about voters than parties.

It didn't even occur to me that it was saying republicans and democrats are the same. That's just ridiculous ;-)

Edit: To clarify there's good evidence that people overestimate the degree to which people on the other side of the political divide hold extreme views by about a factor of two. We genuinely are less different than we think. It's not necessary for people to be the same for this to be true.