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Romney to Donors: Obama Won Because of "Gifts" to Minorities

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No Malarkey!11/14/2012 5:34:35 pm PST

re: #132 EPR-radar

This raises an interesting question. Is it possible for there to be a further realignment of the two parties, of the kind that has happened before?

My 2 cents is that the Democratic party can (and will) change, mainly by absorbing ex-republicans. However, it seems impossible for the present-day version of the Republican party to change.

Well over time, as its elderly base dies off, someone with charisma and vision will bring centrists back to the GOP and wrest control of it from the neoconfederates. This could take some time; From 1860 through 1928 the Democrats won only 4 of 18 presidential elections.