<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b1adaede-f066-4b7f-a3e3-9965aa21c022/D7EFE423-03BC-4765-A6DE-760752DF0DC5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ypnation.net/blogs/grand-realignment-20" href="http://www.ypnation.net/blogs/grand-realignment-20" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ypnation.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ypnation.net/blogs/grand-realignment-20"> <H2>The Grand Realignment 2.0</H2><!-- Start If --><!-- regular node view template HTML here --> <DIV class="node clear-block" id=node-276> <DIV class=meta> <DIV class=submitted-in>Submitted by <A title="View user profile." href="http://www.ypnation.net/users/ewan-watt">Ewan Watt</A> on 11/06/2009 - 12:43</DIV> <DIV class="content clear-block"><!-- google_ad_section_start --> <DIV class="field field-type-filefield field-field-blogfullimg"> <DIV class=field-label>Blog Fullsize Image:&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV class=field-items> <DIV class="field-item odd"><IMG class="imagecache imagecache-blog_full_view imagecache-default imagecache-blog_full_view_default" title="" height=147 alt="" src="http://www.ypnation.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_full_view/Blog_Images/President-electlg.gif" width=220> </DIV></DIV></DIV> <P><A href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/06/the_myth_of_08_demolished_99048.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>There is an interesting piece</A> by Charles Krauthammer in today's <EM>Washington Post</EM>, in which he claims Tuesday's results blow the theory that the 2008 presidential election signaled the creation of a grand new ideological alignment.<BR>&nbsp;<BR>This theory has been promulgated by a number of Democratic strategists who have peppered Borders, cafes and airport waiting areas with literature that proclaims an era of dominance akin to that initiated by FDR's handsome victory in 1932. Through my own travails in various airports it was hard to miss this steady stream of books highlighting how <A href="http://www.amazon.com/Death-Conservatism-Sam-Tanenhaus/dp/1400068843" target=_blank rel=nofollow>conservatism is dead</A> and how we can expect a Democratic majority for the <A href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/40-More-Years/James-Carville/e/9781416569893" target=_blank rel=nofollow>next four decades</A>.</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D7EFE423-03BC-4765-A6DE-760752DF0DC5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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