[Fee]

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.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Definitely the pendulum is over on the Democrat side, if it ever was. It will pendulum right back, in 2016, maybe in 2012. That is just now fickle and shifting the American voter has been for 100 or more years.

But for now, as most countries around the world can see, America is definitely Democrat Territory this year, I believe thanks to Bush, McCain AND various multiple factors you have cited.

Drat! We really needed a Ronald Reagan to get us out of this mess.

Not a Nelson Rockefeller.

[CPT Clay]

It will be interesting how the blue collar Dems feel in 2012.

I will still be the Repulicans fault.