The Dem elites have thrown in their lot with the far-left nutjobs. While they’ll still get the votes of most of the Dem sheep who have no idea who Markos Moulitsas is or even who Karl Rove is, they do not reflect the social mores of them. Propaganda for gay marriage and gun confiscation does not appeal to most of the average Dems I know, but they’ll pull the lever for Hillary in 2008 anyway thinking that the Dems still look out for the “little man”. It’ll take a very good educational campaign program by Republicans to make them realize that the Dem Party jumped ship on middle-class America decades ago.
Schumer wrote a book about appealing to middle-class America, and they specifically sought "moderates" to run in 2006. We'll see what the GOP can do with it in 2008, but the neoCOMs have some huge contradictions that they built themselves.