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To: Dale Baker who wrote (26977)	8/22/2006 12:49:19 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541997

The 2000s figure is for one term of one president, who is now very unpopular. Not enough of a data point to suggest an end to the trend, and even if it IS an end to a trend it doesn't change the fact that there was a trend before Bush. But no lasting majority and no sign of one on the horizon. I never said there was. Talking about how conservatives have gotten a lot more powerful, doesn't mean that you think they have or will have a lasting majority. If they where strong enough for long enough for it to seem that they were developing a lasting majority (and even that would be difficult to pull off), than rather than being in power for ever the debate would likely shift and those seen as conservatives would be a more equal force (or perhaps even a minority force) in the new battlefield. About the most that could possibly happen would be the type of majority that the liberals had from FDR until relatively recent years, but such a majority doesn't happen too often, and the type of major events that played a part in forming the majority (particularly the depression, but also probably WWII) aren't likely to be repeated any time soon.