ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests how an analysis of House election results and changes in the 1960s could have been analyzed from a party-centered perspective. Analyses of House election results could proceed in an historical and apolitical fashion. There were alternative presumptions that could have served as a basis for analyses of the fortunes of incumbents. House incumbent election results might be approached with such an explicitly political framework. There was evidence that change was proceeding faster for presidential candidates than for House candidates. The important matter is what conditions would justify a focus on changing political conditions. With this focus, the fortunes of incumbents can be of central concern, but with a focus on how the incumbents of each party were faring in the areas targeted. Before moving to examining incumbent fortunes, there is the question of whether it is reasonable to retrospectively suggest the possibility of an alternative analysis.
