You know the country is deeply divided when more than 100,000 people buy clocks counting down the seconds until the president leaves office:

As Campaign ’08 rages on and Hillary, Rudy, Barack and Mitt buttons dot the political landscape, a deeply unpopular President Bush is proving that he may be going but he’s clearly not forgotten.

Key chain-sized clocks that count down the remaining days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the end of the Bush administration have become hot items for Democrats – and some Republicans – who probably don’t hum “Never Can Say Goodbye” when they think of Bush.

“The clocks give people hope. It’s a countdown to a new start, a fresh beginning,” said Vince Ponzo, a 33-year-old New York City Democrat who began selling the key chain-sized digital clocks shortly after Bush’s second inauguration in 2004. “We’ve sold about 110,000.”

Here’s what they look like:

These days, exploiting polarization is big business.