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majority party in the 1950s and 1960s. undisputed majority party and, therefore, there s an incentive for the minority party to find common ground and the majority was so unwielding that the leader of the majority party had to reach out in passing the civil rights act of 1964, i think he got three-quarters. the republican house supported the bill divided the democratic caucus 50/50. because of the unwieldy size of the national majority. i think the incentives right now in our national politics, we re going through a phase here where the incentives are not to reach across the aisle, but mobilize your own people. bring your own people to the polls. we don t have an answer for that except that i think the american people over the last number of elections have really not rendered a clear-cut decision in the way so many of our elections were decided back then. if you look at eisenhower in 52. this was a decisive victory. 60 is very narrow. lyndon johnson 64 huge landslide. ....

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