They also had solid party organizations. A lot of FDR's and LBJ's 'majorities' consisted of conservative Southerners who were not at all happy with much of New Deal Liberalism. Then party discipline in terms of handing out campaign funds kept things going in a way that probably isn't possible in this age of special interest pacs.
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Date: 2016-01-30 05:32 pm (UTC)