… After presidential elections, commentators—especially those on the winning side—often seem to believe that Something Big Is Happening. It’s not just that the winner won and the loser lost. It’s that the winner won in a transformational way, in a way that will fundamentally reshape politics, in a way that foreshadows one-party dominance.
If anything, the 2004-2010 elections show that such ideas rarely pan out. And yet, here we are once again in 2012, and the same thing is happening. [cont.]
John Sides, George Washington U. (The Monkey Cage)