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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (213298)	1/1/2013 12:26:26 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541733

Demographics will preserve the "grand bargain"---in some form. I don't see your argument here. I really don't see the structure that will permit "grand bargaining" in the congress. The power of gerrymandering lowers the structural incentives to compromise--see the Chris Ciliza article Dale posted yesterday. Or any number of posts over the longer term. I'm not arguing there will be no grand bargains; just that the structure doesn't give incentives to do so. Either some overwhelmingly negative event has to change the structural incentives or they themselves have to change. Neither are likely. My own conclusion is that it will mean tougher, harder bargaining. More likely that congressional members will have to see the hard consequences of their choices before they will compromise.