It's not surprising - we've been tracking this since Obama was elected. And here we are 10 months into the Age of Obama and all the talk about a "transformative" election where the country took a wild swing to the left last November has all but disappeared.
The election of Barack Obama was a political anomaly - a hiccup in an otherwise conservative body politic. The reasons are pretty obvious, beginning with a terrible GOP candidate who ran an abysmal campaign, coupled with the Republicans turning away from conservative principles while being corrupted by power in Washington.
Here are the raw numbers from Gallup going back to 1992:
Victory is inherent in those numbers...if:
1. If the Republican party returns to its conservative roots.
2. If the GOP can come up with a winning, positive agenda that will attract independents who are more responsive to that kind of message.
3. If Republicans can convince conservatives that they have mended their profligate spending ways and are now ready to make the hard choices on the budget to save us from bankruptcy.
Unfortunately, I see very little of this taking place at the national level. Obviously, reform will have to bubble up from the bottom.
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