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Expect Confrontation, Not Compromise: The 112th House of Representatives Is Likely to Be the Most Conservative and Polarized House in the Modern Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2011

Alan I. Abramowitz
Alan I. Abramowitz
Affiliation:
Emory University
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An examination of the results of the recent midterm elections indicates that the new House of Representatives will probably be the most conservative and ideologically polarized House since the end of World War II. Republicans will hold 242 seats after a net gain of 63 seats, constituting the largest Republican majority in the House of Representatives since the 80th Congress (1947–49), which also had 242 Republican members.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 293 - 295
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2011

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1 I multiplied the original scores by 10 and recoded them into five categories—very liberal (−9 to −5), liberal (−4 to −3), moderate (−2 to 3), conservative (4 to 5), and very conservative (6 to 12)—to make it easier to present the findings.