"Divided Government"? Not So Much. Here's Why That Saying Isn't Really Accurate.
There are two old political sayings that are no longer valid:
"All politics are local."
"People want divided government."
In the past, it didn't matter what party your local official was as much as what they DID.
Clear the snow, fill the potholes, get the garbage picked up or you're out of here!
And many voters sometimes purposed voted for divided government. The would vote "for the person" for president and their party's nominee for the Senate or the House.
But ever since Newt Gingrich nationalized elections in the '90s with his "Contract With America" campaign for House underlings, the composition of state legislatures look more and more like the U.S. House composition. There are more states with two U.S. Senators of the same party and those states with Republicans senators and governors are very likely to have voted for Trump for president in 2016.
And fewer and fewer state legislatures have divided goverments.
