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In hyper-partisan era, only candidates can change outcomes

By Michael Barone
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In hyper-partisan era, only candidates can change outcomes

Former House Speaker Tip O’Neill famously said that all politics is local. And it mostly was, in his time: He was first elected to the Massachusetts legislature’s lower house in 1936 and became its speaker in 1949, and was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1952 and became its speaker in 1977.

Those were years when there was constant churning and turmoil in partisan politics. Yankee Republicans yielded majority status to Catholic Democrats in O’Neill’s Massachusetts.

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