"wedge issue" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1996 March 25, Catherine Yang, “Worried white men may be the GOP's ace in the hole”, in businessweek.com, retrieved 2011-05-11",
          "text": "\"It's sick,\" he gripes. \"Everybody is tired of someone getting a job because of color.\" Republicans are exploiting such frustration. . . .. Says Kathy Spillar, national coordinator for the Feminist Majority: \"The GOP wants to use it as a racial wedge issue.\"",
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          "ref": "2006 July 30, Nancy Gibbs, “Stem Cells: The Hope And The Hype”, in Time",
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        "(politics, sociology) A discussion point or a difference in points of view which is particularly likely to be controversial and a source of discord between discussants or other involved parties; a difference in viewpoints which causes disharmony within a political or social group."
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        "(politics, sociology) A discussion point or a difference in points of view which is particularly likely to be controversial and a source of discord between discussants or other involved parties; a difference in viewpoints which causes disharmony within a political or social group."
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