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Article: House Democrats Called Bar to Realignment; Political Scientists Say Republicans Failed to Capitalize on Political Shift of 1980
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- The Washington Post
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- September 5, 1987
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Although the Republican Party under President Reagan has made
tremendous gains, the continuing invulnerability of Democratic
members of the House has served as a roadblock to the kind of
partisan realignment that took place in the late 1800s and the 1930s,
according to a number of political scientists and pollsters gathered
here.
As both major parties gear up for the 1988 presidential election,
participants in the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association voiced ambivalent and often conflicting
assessments of the prospects for the Democratic and Republican
parties, although no one disputed the basic findings of Richard
Wirthlin, a GOP pollster:
"There was a great ...