Quote Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy View Post
It's got absolutely nothing to do with that. The same thing happens all the time with multi-party systems. It's a lot easier to TRACK with them, because you directly see the factions shifting through the external mechanism of elections, rather than through more opaque internal movements within a party.
Fine, then we're stuck with the opaque internal movements within our two parties, and not much gets done? What a plan, huh.

Not particularly, not in my experience. Loki might be familiar with sources doing an actual statistical analysis, breaking down degrees of compromise by legislative area, that could answer it one way or the other.
Oh yeah, that's just what we need...a statistical analysis. Loki can knock himself out, and come back to explain things, one way or another.

In the meantime, "most people" know Washington and our politics are broken and dysfunctional. If you don't believe me, look at the Occupy movement.