Realignment--Iraq, Populist Economics, What Will It Take?

Published: September 22, 2007, 2:37 pm

[Yes, Virginia, I've been asked to frontpage on the weekends.] While I dared to dream of a Democratic landslide last year a little earlier than most, I started talking about about realignment just the month before the election. I wrote a post, "What A Dem Landslide Could Mean," in which I argued that political realignments happen when one party wins two consecutive wave elections in the House, It always starts in the House, though the timing of the Presidential election that gets all the glory can vary. In 1896, in fact, the Republicans actually lost a fair number of seats-but nothing compared to what they'd gained in 1892 and 1894. Yesterday, there were two posts here that touched on the issue of realignment, which made me think it was time to write about it again. Then Chris invited me to start front-paging on weekends, so the opportunity seemed perfect-even if one of the posts was by Chris, and I probably disagree with it more than anything he's posted in

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