Obama’s 2008 Victory in Perspective

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  November 5th at 07:39 PM  | 

It’s going to happen, and we all know it: after two close elections, some Democrats are going to claim that Obama’s margin of victory over John McCain was a large, overwhelming repudiation of the Republican party, and that it was possibly even a historical turning point of partisan political realignment. There’s just one problem with that theory: It’s not true.