“divisiveness his candidacy for president would bring”
Care to explain that?
Definition of DIVISIVE: creating disunity or dissension
Actually, it requires very little explanation. You can read this or any other thread where the question is at issue, and see hard and fast opinions on both sides. Until and unless the question is finally put to rest by the Supreme Court it will linger and probable get more personal.
On the liberal side where many democrats reside, the constitution is a living document and subject to differing interpretation as the circumstances require. They really don't care about this issue except as lever to divide their opponents. However, on the more conservative side of the political spectrum, the constitution is not an abstraction. It means what it says and logical consistency does not allow many of those who sincerely believed Oboma to be ineligible to now accept that Senator Cruz is eligible. My point is simply that if there is a fight over this issue, it will be conservative against conservative, not conservative against liberal. While we are fighting, democrats will be coasting to another victory.