WE HAVEN'T SEEN THE LAST OF RED v. BLUE

Great article in TNR on why the long-term trends are tending towards Democratic dominance. The two parties are very much aligned in the same way they were at the turn of the 20th century, except they've swapped places. This time the Dems are the forward-looking, progressive party that dominates the Northeast, Great Lakes and California and the Republicans are the nostalgia-driven populists that dominate the South and the West. With the twin tasks of a war on terror and curtailing the excesses of the Second Gilded Age, the Dems could really use a Teddy Roosevelt about now.