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The Myth of '08, Demolished
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Democrats in Congress Say Election Gives New Urgency to Their Agenda
Democrats in Congress Say Election Gives New Urgency to Their Agenda
nytimes.com — WASHINGTON — Blaming election setbacks on a drop in voter enthusiasm, Congressional Democrats said Wednesday that losses... in governors’ races in Virginia and New Jersey — and a striking House win in New York — should give new urgency to their ... (more) Democrats in Congress Say Election Gives New Urgency to ...
‘Permanent Democratic majority’ begins to unravel
blogs.reuters.com — Voter revulsion at trillion-dollar deficits and impatience about unemployment is creating a toxic environment for the Obama... White House and congressional Democrats. Major legislative items like healthcare, energy and financial reform are already ... (more) ‘Permanent Democratic majority’ begins to unravel
Voters' Swing is Simply Astonishing
realclearpolitics.com — Dan Henninger, Wall Street Journal (more) Voters' Swing is Simply Astonishing
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America Returns to the Center/Right Norm
Blogs For VictoryKrauthammer gets it very right: …November ‘08 was one-shot, one-time, never to be replicated. Nor was November ‘09 a realignment. It was a return to the norm — and definitive confirmation that 2008 was one of the great flukes in American political history. The irony of 2009 is that the anti-Democratic tide overshot the norm — deeply blue New Jersey, for example, elected a Republican governor for the first time in 12 years — because Democrats so thoroughly misread 2008 and the mandate they assumed it bestowed. Obama ...

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