John Judis

Obama's Blue Tide in Virginia: Aberration or Trend?

A year ago Tuesday, President Obama made history as the first African-American elected to the White House. He also made history by re-defining the electoral map, most notably in Virginia, a state that hadn't voted for a Democrat since 1964. Since then, pundits have been debating whether the Democratic sweep of 2008 was a re-aligning of America into a more-permanent Democratic majority -- as argued in a new book, The Emerging Democratic Majority by Ruy Teixeira and John Judis -- or an aberration unique to Barack Obama and the political climate. Indeed, a new poll out by Gallup this week has ...

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