Original sentence: Bush, and Democrat Barack Obama, where control of Congress eventually switched to their respective opposition party.Experts debate whether the Fifth Party System ended (and thus a Sixth Party System emerged) in the mid-1960s (as the New Deal coalition did), the early 1980s (when the Moral Majority was formed), the mid-1990s, or possibly continues to the present.Of the twenty presidential elections since 1932, the Democrats won 7 of the first 9 (through 1964), with Democratic control of Congress as the norm; but after a shift to 'social issues' in politics, the Republicans won 7 of the 12 since 1968, with divided government becoming the norm.The System was heavily Democratic through 1965, and mostly Republican at the presidential level since 1968.This includes the recent presidencies of Democrat Bill Clinton, Republican George W
Edited sentence: Experts debate whether the Fifth Party System ended in the mid-1960s (as the New Deal coalition did), the early 1980s (when the Moral Majority was formed), the mid-1990s, or possibly continues to the present.Of the twenty presidential elections since 1932, the Democrats won 7 of the first 9 (through 1964), with Democratic control of Congress as the norm; but after a shift to 'social issues' in politics, the Republicans won 7 of the 12 since 1968, with divided government as the norm in the present Sixth Party System.Still, the border is distinct but porous: The Democrats controlled the House of Representatives, for all but four years between 1930 and 1994 The New Deal's last gasps dying in Bill Clinton's first clumsy year as President, after the last great New Dealer Speech being his introduction to US voters by D-NY Mario Cuomo at the climax of the 1992 Democratic convention (which, along with Clinton's own campaign speech, gained the Democratic ticket a 29-point bump in the polls and, finally, another US President), but Republicans blocked any major programs, Clinton chose a moderate path, and Republicans controlled both houses of Congress firmly, by the next year—with Clinton abandoning any New Deal politics on economics to move to the center and win re-election.The System was heavily Democratic through 1965, and mostly Republican at the presidential level since the political realignment of 1968-72, which by the end of the Vietnam War had transformed US politics into the Sixth Party System