{"id":130942,"date":"2012-05-16T10:21:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T14:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=130942"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:04:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:04:11","slug":"moderation-congress-dwindling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/05\/16\/moderation-congress-dwindling\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderation In Congress: (Surprisingly) Not Dead Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Article:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/2012\/05\/09\/congressional-moderation-dwindling-not-dead\/\">Congressional Moderation: Dwindling, Not Dead<\/a> by Adam Sorensen in Time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Text:<\/strong> Dick Lugar\u2019s Tuesday primary loss in Indiana has inspired a predictably large amount of introspection about polarization in Congress. It marked a dark trend, but did it augur the death of all moderation? No. There are certain political realities that still exist for Republicans running in Blue states and Democrats in Red territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndependent,\u201d \u201cbeholden to no one\u201d and \u201cworking together\u201d are words that appear in this ad; \u201cRepublican\u201d is a word that does not. It\u2019s not just talk either. A Congressional Quarterly analysis found Brown voted with his party in opposition to Democrats just 54% of the time in 2011, the second-lowest score in Mitch McConnell\u2019s caucus. If a Republican wants to win re-election in Massachusetts, that\u2019s just the way it\u2019s going to be.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, things aren\u2019t static and Brown doesn\u2019t cancel out Lugar. Nate Silver runs down the full list of falling bodies, but it\u2019s hard to paint a clearer picture than this graph of Howard Rosenthal and Keith Poole\u2019s data on congressional polarization over time: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/congress-polarization.jpg\" alt=\"Congress Polarization Graph\" title=\"congress-polarization\" width=\"589\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/congress-polarization.jpg 589w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/congress-polarization-200x100.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s call moderation dwindling, not dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Article: Congressional Moderation: Dwindling, Not Dead by Adam Sorensen in Time. The Text: Dick Lugar\u2019s Tuesday primary loss in Indiana has inspired a predictably large amount of introspection about polarization in Congress. It marked a dark trend, but did it augur the death of all moderation? 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