Historical Context
October 18, 2008
Devastating back-to-back election cycles are truly rare: They have happened only twice in the past 80 years (40 elections) — to Republicans in 1932 and 1934 and to Democrats in 1950 and 1952. Usually, when voters kick the heck out of one party, their anger is satisfied and they move on. Voters rarely come back the very next time and kick the same party hard again.
It looks like this time, that is exactly what will happen.
Charlie Cook is a wise man. He’s also the one who said that the Republicans wouldn’t nominate a gay-friendly Catholic who’s been married three times when the rest of the world thought the R nominee was going to be Guiliani, right?
Ah, Eric. I don’t know how I didn’t know about this blog, but it made me happy. I want to see your haircut!