A patch back, I took Gail Collins to task for characterizing senate Democrats as "rabid poultry pigs in a diacetylmorphine storm," with the assumption that it would be hard for Democratic majorities to reassert develop within their ranks. I spinous discover that band identicalness has been crescendo over time, that Democrats are lately more unified than Republicans, and that, in general, band identicalness is the rule, not the exception.
On Monday, CQ released its band identicalness scores for the 111th Congress, and -- guess what? -- the parties were really, rattling unified. Despite the filler of the Democratic House and senate majorities. Despite the flow of Blue Dogs. Despite the flow of rabid poultry pigs, or whatever. Indeed, senate Democrats, Collins' example, were the most unified they hit been since 1956. Here is the CQ graph:
Here is a graph I prefabricated from the 1991-2010 accumulation at the Washington Post's U.S. Congress Votes Database. They calculate band identicalness a taste differently but the aforementioned basic news emerges: broad levels of loyalty, mostly crescendo over time.
If you poverty to wager the accumulation since 1879, thanks to Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole, and Howard Rosenthal, holograph downbound to the lowermost of the Polarized USA page.
Narratives of declining band power and band identicalness are ostensibly quite appealing. Journalists fuck to overwhelm on every happening of disloyalty and dissension. Here's the story on Ben Nelson, for example. By contrast, a assembly where members' votes are pretty predictable isn't much an elating story. But that's the assembly we have.
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