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thenewgreen · 4427 days ago · link · · parent · post: Nate Silver: As Swing Districts Dwindle, Can a Divided House Stand?
In this environment, members of Congress have little need to build coalitions across voters with different sets of political preferences or values. Few members of Congress today are truly liberal on social issues but conservative on fiscal issues or vice versa.
I thought this paragraph summed up te problem nicely. What's te incentive to be bipartisan if your district is straight up blue or red? Nuance and diversity are good things in this regard. Unless politicians are rewarded for taking risks by breaking the ranks, they won't.