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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
Obama will truly be the "transformative leader" he is hyped up to be if the Dems retain solid control next year. That will break all sorts of historical precedents/patterns. It will truly be the culmination of the "liberalization of America" that a guest researcher on NPR was discussing around 9 years ago. I forgot his name but he mentioned that demographic changes in the US's exurbs and suburbs indicate a leftward swing that will last at least 20 years.
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I read a similar thing. As more and more companies leave big cities for smaller towns and more and more people either commute or telecommute and move out of the big cities we are seeing shift in rural politics. Areas that were always republican are now sudden flush with new liberals. The big thing that the democrats will be doing is the census followed by the redistricting afterward. The republicans were in power for the last one and it helped them tremendously in some states so you know the democrats will return the favor. If Obama does well and you factor in the shift in where people live and the redistricting we could see democrats in power for many years to come.
Then again they could do exactly what the republicans did which is get power then get bloated and corrupt and screw things up to the point that they are all thrown out of office.