I hope you're right, but I think the Republican Party was lucky last election...20 something million college students didn't recover from their hang-over in time to "VOTE or DIE!" (though that might not have mattered from the electoral sense...argueably they were all in heavily democratic voting areas anyway.)
The Patriots guide is a good counter to Zinn's "Peoples History"...Honestly, I hope I never meet Zinn...his revisionist crap only fuels my rage.
The great majority of people would have turned Democrat a LONG time ago. When we're younger, we're generally more liberal anyway. A lot of my classmates from high school are a lot more conservative since they've married and started families. Even George Bush and Ronald Reagan were so during their younger days. What I do worry about is that some conservatives are adopting liberal tactics and liberal behaviors and the increasing depth to which the liberals will go to push their agendas (e.g. gay marriage). Can you order the Patriot's History?