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The End of the Reagan Era, or Is It?
PoliGazette — ... With Barack Obama holding on to a reasonably sizable lead in the polls, increasingly more people are wondering whether this means that “the Reagan Era” has come to an end. After all, Obama represents a completely different kind of political ideology than Reagan did; Reagan appealed to many Democrats but he was, in essence, a far-right politician, who strongly favored free enterprise, capitalism, and who emphasized America’s current greatness. ...

A Return to the Reagan Years?
TalkLeft — ... Ronald Brownstein, fearful that Democrats will emerge from the November elections with a president and large Democratic margins in the House and Senate, urges Democrats to abide by their duty to govern as if they were Reagan Republicans. This is because Americans are faithful to the ideology of Reagan and recognize that the New Deal represented a failure of ideas. Voters who send Obama to the White House are rejecting George Bush, not Reagan's belief that government is the problem. ...

Get your kvetching in early
The Sideshow — ... Ronald Brownstein has a wishful article in The National Journal worrying that the Democrats have picked a candidate who isn't enough like Ronald Reagan, who Americans loved because they recognize that the New Deal was "a failure of ideas". TChris ...

Hullabaloo — ... if you believe the public is directly analogous to the Washington commentariat. I've had a hard time chronicling everyone who has told me that, in the wake of the largest victory for Democrats since 1964, in the wake of winning a majority of the votes cast in 4 out of the last 5 Presidential elections, in the wake of reducing the Republican Party to a regional outpost in the South and part of the Great Plains, this is a profoundly conservative nation. Here's a partial list: Ron Brownstein, Jon Meacham, Peggy Noonan, Howard Fineman, David ...

"America Remains a Center-Right Nation"
Shadow of the Hegemon — ... if you believe the public is directly analogous to the Washington commentariat. I've had a hard time chronicling everyone who has told me that, in the wake of the largest victory for Democrats since 1964, in the wake of winning a majority of the votes cast in 4 out of the last 5 Presidential elections, in the wake of reducing the Republican Party to a regional outpost in the South and part of the Great Plains, this is a profoundly conservative nation. Here's a partial list: Ron Brownstein, Jon Meacham, Peggy Noonan, Howard Fineman, David ...