Specter and the New Democratic Party, pt. 2

First, go and read this Pew article which suggests something similar to what my original article posited last week.  Party alignment is down overall, but Republicans are suffering much worse losses.

Democratic party affiliation on the downswing could mean two things: a) that more moderates are leaving the party as it becomes more liberal, or b) that more liberals are leaving the party as it becomes moderate.  Or maybe it’s both, but I tend to think that it’s more B and less A.  Of course, things are much more complicated than this, and I’m oversimplifying, but bear with me.

As I stated earlier, at first I was a little weary of the party swinging further towards the right.  But after thinking about it for a while, I guess I see no problem with that as long as the radical Republican party becomes more marginalized in the process (which they are).

So I guess I’m wondering what this means.  If the Republican party is becoming a fringe group, and Democrats are becoming the moderate-to-right group, does this leave an opening for a left-of-center organization to take hold?

I realize this might be a crackpot idea, but I wonder if anyone else is seeing this with me.  Let me know!

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