Stephen Skowronek

…great realigning elections of 1828, 1860, 1896, 1932, arguably 1968, to some extent 1992, where the balance of power in the electorate shifts toward one side. And Skowronek basically argues that the presidents that we consider the weakest through American history are…

…So there's a great political scientist at Yale named Stephen Skowronek, who wrote a book in 1993, he's updated a few times, that argues that presidents fail or succeed based not only on their innate talents, but where they fall in the cycle of competition between the parties. There's kind of a waxing and waning of the strength of the parties through America…