Since the middle 1990s, the popular vote for the House of Representatives has become a good proxy for the standing of the nation's two major parties. This was not the case for many years, in large part because Democratic House candidates in the South stood for different issues than their party’s national nominees and tended to run far ahead of Democratic presidential candidates. But during Bill Clinton’s presidency and afterward, Democratic presidential candidates became more successful nationally than they had been in most of the 1970s and 1980s, even as Republicans...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/07/21/how_to_understand_obama039s_chances_in_2012_259785.html
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