1 In a twin pregnancy. the average is 37 weeks. for triplets 34 and quadruplets 32 weeks. 2  The average birth weight for singletons is 7 lbs 7 oz. 3  Average birth weight of twins is 5 lbs 5 oz. for triplets 4lbs and quads 3lbs. 4  A difference in birth weight between multiples is not unusual.
So, sometime between the 1860s and 1936, the (Democratic) party of small government became the party of big government, and the (Republican) party of big government became rhetorically committed to curbing federal power.
By the 1997-1998 term Republicans had won a majority of the seats in the state Senate, and after the 2002 election became the majority in the state House of Representatives as well. A graph of the number of seats held by each party in the Legislature since 1939 clearly illustrates the change in party power.