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PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:53 pm    Post subject: Democracy grinding to a halt Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 6:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Democracy grinding to a halt Reply with quote
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What is the agreement between the clothure vote rate and the size of the deficit during the terms shown on the graph? I expect the low rate in the 50's and early 60's was because the deficit was low. During the mid 60's we had a war and Johnson's liberal policies where deficits began growing and the rate of clothures also grew. It seems to me that the size of the spending bill is directly related to the clothure voting no matter the party.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think that's a bit of a cop out. My guess would be that if those spikes coincide with deficit spending, its coincidental. More likely, they coincide with periods of harsh political partisanship. The budget is just an easy place to draw political lines.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It doesn't explain the relative lack of activity from 1980-89...
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