Thursday, November 6, 2008
A National Party No More
That was the title of turncoat Zell Miller's 2003 book, wherein he made the case that his party, the Democratic Party, had no appeal to large sections of the country.
Also, Miller said the only way Democrats could increase their appeal was by behaving more like Republicans.
Jonathan Singer from MyDD makes the case that it is now the Republican Party in danger of becoming a purely regional party:
...McCain carried only the South. I wrote about this predicament well before the election, noting that it would be extremely difficult for McCain to rack up 270 electoral votes winning only in the South but not in the other regions of the country. Indeed, while George W. Bush carried the Midwest in addition to the South in 2004, only narrowly losing the West by a single point, McCain won only the South, with Barack Obama taking 54 percent of vote in the Midwest, 57 percent of the vote in the West, and 59 percent of the Northeast.The elections of 2006 and 2008 have pleased me in many ways, but I must say I'm most pleased to see the political influence of the South diminished so greatly.
For far too long, political pundits have looked to the South as a microcosm for the rest of the country.
Politically, it just isn't...
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