No Shift in the Electorate

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Regardless the wave that swept Dems from power, by no means does it reflect a ‘shift’ in American Politics.

After the 2004 elections, Rove wrote about a “Permanent Republican Majority.” Yeah, that worked well for less than 24 months. Then after the next two elections, when the Dems picked up a total of fourteen Senate seats and another 54 in the House, James Carvile wrote that Republicans will be out of power for the next forty years.

I never figured out why he picked the number forty, but two years after Carvile’s book, the House has a sweeping Republican majority.

The constant back and forth swing has to do with the public being down on certain issues every other year, and the party in power pays a price for it. It has nothing with a “shift” in ideology, one way or another.

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  • Joe Hill

    The Democrats controlled the House for 40 straight years – from 1954 through 1994. And they even controlled the House for about 30 years prior to ’54, with a few exceptions. So they controlled it virtually for almost 70 years. And they controlled the Senate the vast majority of that time as well. Even during the years of Republican President’s (i.e. Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, etc.)

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