…then maybe secession won’t turn out to be such an ‘extremist’ idea. After all, why would conservatives want to live forever under a Liberal/Socialist yoke?

These pundits seem to think that party ID is static like it was in immediate post WW2 era. But partisanship is steadily declining.

Remember the vaunted independents. Most are nitwits, but both parties are eager to court their votes. With good reason, because they are growing as a political bloc.

We need to work for their votes. But we should remember that the defining characteristic of “independents” is their lack of allegiance to either political party.

Sabato assumes liberal college kids remain liberal all their life. But they don’t. In fact the majority become more conservative as they enter the workforce and get married.
I live in the Blue State of New Jersey where 44% of us voted McCain. Its not as if we are all Southern White Males. We aren’t. Its not as if Obama won 100% of the votes inside blue states. I see more and more traditional Democrats moving over to the GOP as years go by. White Christian middle class people who see their party being taken over by militant blacks, homosexuals and ACLU Jewish Liberals. These white Christian Democrats are a people without a party. I would wager that Geraldine Ferraro voted for McCain in November. The youth vote always tends to lean left. As they age they do not remain liberals

Many of the suburbs that once voted republican for many fiscal reasons started to sway Democrat lately and many of that is due to social issues. Even people who are dismayed at Democrat always raising their taxes are not forthright to admit they would ever vote Republican because the “image” that many city people feel the Republican party is today

Many people in suburbs enjoy city life and all that entails.

for the first time is US political history you have a basically illegal, corrupt group -ACORN – organized to advance the fortunes of one political party by defrauding the entire electoral process. Wait til 12 to 16 million illegals get the vote with their own ACORN driver to take them to the polls. That is a situation that we cannot allow to happen.

Another way to put this is, America and everything it stands for is being slowly destroyed.

is wrong more then he is right.

Sabato was the big honcho who played a major role in Hillary Clintons UVA visit during the campaign. McCain didn’t even bother to make an appearance (no loss) anywhere near the Liberal College town of Charlottesville, or at UVA. I disagree Curt that he is “usually relatively objective.” Sabato never met a camera or microphone he didn’t like. In these parts (I live about 15 miles from the University) Sabato is a known Liberal quantity, along with much of the University staff. If I am not mistaken, Janet Napolitano graduated from the JAG program at UVA. Can’t get more Liberal than that.

As to Sabato’s think about the students remaining Liberal, he missed the lesson that as people get older, start paying taxes and financing their own way in life, they start paying attention to the dollars and freedoms that are taken from them by a Liberal Government. Right now, his students are all being taught that everything in life should be “fair” and “equal”, and that there really can be that perfect utopian society. Wait until those same students find out that whatever they earn through their own accomplishments, will be taken away, so that even those that accomplish nothing will have the same, so that all can be made equal. You know it goes back to the old saying- If you are 20 and not a Liberal, you don’t have a heart. If you are 40 and not a Conservative, you don’t have a brain.

After Nixon and Agnew both resigned in disgrace, and Ford pardoned Nixon, “everybody” thought the Republicans were permanently tarnished. After four years of Carter, I believe that Donald Duck could have won in 1980. Fortunately, we were offered much better than Donald Duck.

We’re all assuming that we’ll still have free and open elections, regardless of groups like ACORN and the unions.

Remember, the 2010 Census, which is now controlled by The White House, takes place before the election and will have massive effects on redistricting the entire country to suit the Marxist’s needs.

Unless our system of government drastically changes (a distinct possibility while Barry is in office), we will always have a two party system.

This is the same Larry Sabato who predicted that George W. Bush would not be reelected back in Aug 2004. This was right around the time that the swiftboat veterans came on the scene and a few months prior to Osama Bin Laden’s endorsement of John Kerry. Two years is an eternity in politics and anything can happen.Sabato certainly should know that.