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  • Social Security and Political Realignments - (encouraging, profound analysis by Noel Sheppard)

    03/01/2005 7:18:39 PM PST · by CHARLITE · 1 replies · 451+ views
    CHRONWATCH.COM ^ | MARCH 2, 2005 | NOEL SHEPPARD
    One Sunday this past November, President Bush’s chief strategist Karl Rove went on the talk show circuit to discuss the possibility that 2004 would be depicted by historians as being a realigning election. A little over three months later, with the nation fixated on Social Security reform, his opinions seem remarkably prescient. According to Wikipedia: “[A realigning election is one] in which geographic bases of power for each of the two parties [are] significantly altered, resulting in a new political power structure and status quo. It is generally believed that a realigning election happens only after a shift in partisan...