Any one who still believes this is living in a fool's paradise. Look at the last election. Look where public policy has gone in the last few decades. Even when Republicans won it was just a holding pattern until the next lurch to the left.
Homosexual marriage was judged to be a constitutional right in Iowa of all places. Even the heartland has rotted out. Sorry, but the silent majority is dead, assuming they ever existed in the first place.
As for the New York Times, they're suffering from the same thing that every other print paper is suffering from. O'Reilly is just engaging in wishful thinking. Print media will die off, only to be replaced by a far more powerful left wing electronic media. There's no real cause to celebrate here.
Iowa has been rotting out for a long time. The insane government subsidies for ethanol keeps Iowa leaning far left.
Grassley and Dung Heap Harkin as senators? Please.