Some of the on-going dialogue about what the November 7th vote means:
Jonathan Chait observes in his article "After GOP loss, right turn is wrong" that "All the GOP losses occurred in the center..."
Pete Abel links articles on Huffington Post, Austin Centrist and The Moderate Voice in his post
The Hard-Core, Radical Middle on Central Sanity...
And Susan Page tells us that "The growth is not with either party, it's with the mass of independents." in her article "Election '06: Lessons learned by dissecting votes" in USA Today.
Last week's Talk/Talk:
Salit: One of the framings that numbers of commentators have been using in analyzing the election is that there's a new pragmatism in American politics, ideology is passé, ideological labels are passé. Newman: That, by the way, was said 20 years ago by a whole host of people, including the neo-cons, including Francis Fukuyama. Salit: Right. Newman: That's what The End of History thesis is really about. That's back when Fukuyama was still a neo-con. Salit: Yes. Before the neo-cons became passé. Newman: Or, put another way, before the neo-cons became history. Salit: Right. Is there a trend towards pragmatism in America? Newman: I can't answer that because it depends on what you mean by pragmatism. The folk philosophy of America is pragmatism. But, what version of pragmatism are you talking about? How are you using pragmatism? When they speak of pragmatism, I don't know what they're talking about....
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