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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Farmboy who wrote (148519)	11/7/2012 9:54:39 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224858

Tectonic Demographic Shifts----- BY NEIL KING JR. ------------President Barack Obama's election victory exposed tectonic demographic shifts in American society that are reordering the U.S. political landscape. The 2012 presidential election likely will be remembered as marking the end of long-standing coalitions, as voters regroup in cultural, ethnic and economic patterns that challenge both parties—but especially Republicans. Older voters and white working-class voters, once core elements of the Democratic Party, have drifted into the Republican column. Rural and small-town voters, whose grandparents backed the New Deal, now fill the swath of the U.S. that leans reliably GOP.