For the first time since the Gingrich revolution, the Republican Party is facing massive defeat. Will its congressmen and senators go down in the upcoming 2006 elections like the Democratic lemmings did in 1994, faithfully parroting their president’s dogma while they sank below the horizon? Or will they have the dexterity and flexibility to move to the center and the left to meet the coming onslaught?
The only way for a Republican to survive in 2006 is to run like a Democrat.
The most important (because it is the largest) voting bloc in the country seems to be undergoing a gradual shift from center-right to center (but not center-left). It is not impossible for Republicans to make the shift too and keep their majorities. But the Democrats are in a better position to capture that ground because, with everything else being equal, protest votes for change will win out.
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