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The Pros And Cons Of Party Control Of Government
INTRODUCTION
We live in an era of unprecedented frequency of change in partisan control of government. Since at least 1994, neither of the United
States’ two main political parties can be said to have had a lock on control of the House, the Senate, or the presidency.

Incredibly, the seven elections from 1998 to 2010 produced six different combinations of party control: a Democratic president with a
Republican Congress (1998), a Republican president with a divided
Congress (2000), a Republican president with a Republican
Congress (2002, 2004), a Republican president with a Democratic
Congress (2006), a Democratic president with a Democratic
Congress (2008), and a Democratic president with a divided
Congress (2010).

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