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Origionally posted by Zero
Wow, how hard did you have to dig to link me to somebody's college thesis? And, really, all that paper says is pretty much teh opposite of what you suggest it does. Nice try though, I suppose.
Uhhhh...Wow..that's Keith T. Poole of Poole and Rosenthal. Here's the google on that to head you in the right direction poole and rosenthal
So, what I would like to do is really examine the article and the data and see if this direct quote from the article (the quote that Zero is referring to) is supportable by the data. Please don't post if you are not directly referencing the data. I really am not interested in more..opinion without support from the data
http://voteview.uh.edu/chminds.pdfThe regional differences within the Democratic Party have almost completely disappeared and Democrats as a whole have become more liberal. In contrast, Republicans have become more conservative since the 1980s. The combination of the Democrats becoming more liberal and the Republicans more conservative has resulted in a trend towards ideological polarization within both chambers.
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