Ruminating again. If anyone is up, would you help me think this through

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for a minute. I'm sick to death of these career politicos railing against the very institutions and our nation's hallowed Capitol every cycle, as if they aren't part of it. I saw a meme post earlier today on FB about just such a thing, and was extremely poignant- a well-done meme.

Well, I've been thinking about that ever since, and it occurs to me (without sources, or verification) that surely in our nation's history, Republlcans have held many more seats than Democrats over a period of the last many decades now, and I remember in general that Democrats had a similar, if not more solid lock in the earlier decades of the last century.

Who knows what the actual numbers are, in the totality of history? Like has anyone kept track of the numbers? I would love to be able to source a meme: In all of history, Republicans have held x number of seats, Democrats x-1. (provided of course that we have actually held fewer seats in congress. Or is it the other way around?

Thank you all for looking, hope somebody else knows. I've done the wikipedia thing, among others.

[Glassunion]

1. It's a pain in the ass to get this to work on my phone,

But give this site a shot: http://bop.felixgonda.com/

[silvershadow]

2. That was sure interesting. Bookmarked. Thank you. Not sure yet if it

totally works for me, but might.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I'm not sure what the point would be...

Aside from T. Roosevelt and a few others, Republicans were generally more conservative, but Dixiecrats were what present Bible Belt Republicans now are. The older southern Republicans were Democrats until civil rights pushed them over to the other side. Back in those days I'd take a moderate Eisenhower Republican over a yellow dog Dixiecrat any day.

And then there's the Democratic machines like Tammany Hall in NYC. Republicans had their own machines, like in Cairo, IL, or Nassau County, NY, and for a while it looked like the whole country was run by competing crooks.

Things are a lot better now in many ways, but messier. Once was a time when you just did not piss off the Speaker no matter what party you were-- Cantor and the baggers holding up the works would be crushed in an instant in the old days.

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4. Well, fair enough. I certainly agree with your overall views, and in particular your Eisenhower

thoughts. I'm not sure my intended audience (stark-raving mad, Obama-hating gun nuts) would put that much thought into it, true though it may be. If I just had the numbers (so I could say it was indeed fact-checked) I would make the meme anyway, just because I'm having fun with it. Trying to create a counter-balance to the crap I see on FB is all.

I do agree with Eisenhower on so many things, and if were the President today he'd have to be a Democrat because todays Republicans wouldn't have him that's for sure. Heck he's more of a Democrat in a lot of ways than some we have today, if I can say that.