But then, rational assessments do not drive people into political passions any more than they persuade them to fall in love.

The law ignited political passions that exist to this day.

But with political passions rising in an election year, those numbers could swell.

Among other things, the controversy demonstrated that historians are by no means free of political passions.

Some of the few who do register with the party express a true political passion, on at least one issue.

The race last summer was, for a time, the center of Republican political passions.

Maybe these winners have no political passions they want to share.

But even there he is not exempt from political passion.

The report has, however, also stirred up some political passions.

It is getting to the point where the series has become a conduit for displaced political passion.