It is top down--and from here on out.
McCain is the Party Leader now.
Expect this all over the place.
He will have NEGATIVE COATTAILS because we are clearly abandoning "Conservative" in favor of "Me Too!", and "Big Government" and "Change" -- all recipes for disaster. The wise Republican will actually run AGAINST McCain.
I think the GOP can be rebuilt in 2009 back into a conservative party, or perhaps we will just have to make a new one.
It’s Bush.
The southern Dems are winning as blue collar conservatives who yearn to keep jobs home, and spendings home. The GOP talks about free trade (blue collar job loss to foreign factories), and spending more money overseas in more wars. The new winning Dem coalition will be eggheads, minorities and blue collar Dems. In the past the GOP won narrowly with the help of blue collar Dems. Twelve years of turbulent economical times, ending with wars and rumor of wars has worn the blue collar Dems out and they are willing for change. The blue collar Dems are going to learn that more turbulent change is ahead of them when Obama takes office. It will be interesting how the blue collar Dems feel in 2012.
I agree!