Election 2020: The up side of undivided government - Mediashift Newsroom https://morgan-state-university-newsroom.mmcxchange.com/ Sat, 23 May 2026 18:03:06 -0400 en-US hourly 1 Baltimore Times RSS Hub Election 2020: The up side of undivided government https://morgan-state-university-newsroom.mmcxchange.com/detail/election-2020-the-up-side-of-undivided-government_1777206771 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 06:00:28 -0400 https://morgan-state-university-newsroom.mmcxchange.com/detail/election-2020-the-up-side-of-undivided-government_1777206771 Election 2020: The up side of undivided government

Election 2020: The up side of undivided government COURTESY PHOTOAs of late October, the political modelers at FiveThirtyEight gave Democrats a 72 percent chance of pulling off the trifecta— winning the White House and majorities in both Houses of Congress— on November 3, 2020. My visceral response to that possibility is negative. Excluding outlier possibilities like a Libertarian landslide, I’ve always considered divided government the best outcome. Gridlock, in theory, is good. If an opposition…]]>