Continuing my series on "Hey, the Republicans aren't going to lose forever," I present this WSJ article about the last time the Democrats won over 360 EVs, 58 Senate seats, and 257 House seats.
Two years afterward the Republicans took the Congress for the first time in 50 years.
Let me add, however, that it doesn't mean it's destined to happen. The Republicans need a new Newt Gingrich and a new "Contract with America," neither of which I would consider likely (or, put another way, 1994's fortune was more an exception than a rule).
ReplyDeletePlus, lining up the respective chronology, Obama is more popular than Clinton and Bush 43 is less popular than Bush 41 - both of which favor Democrats. If for no other reason than the fact that he had a list of Clinton's mistakes to avoid, Obama's transition is also going wildly better than Clinton's did.
And - though this is overblown, the analogy basically holds - there would be no Achilles without a Trojan War.
The recession that kicked Bush 41 out of office was not so much like the Trojan War. Obama, on the other hand, has a pretty epic mess to clean up, but that gives him great opportunity to shine. And if he does, the Republicans of the 2010s will look like the Republicans of the 1930s.