Changing Coalitions: Will GOP Have to Toss Its Medicare Plan?

More gray. Less green.

Continuing the reversal of historic political alignments, House Republicans in the new Congress represent most districts with the highest share of seniors–as well as a narrow majority of seats where the median income lags below the national average, a Next America analysis has found.

This counterintuitive alignment underscores the extent to which each party’s congressional map increasingly tracks its performance at the presidential level. And it challenges common assumptions on each side about the nature of its coalition. CONT.

Ronald Brownstein, National Journal

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