MB Civic

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/books/12kaku.html?pagewanted=print

“A veteran reporter says the G.O.P. is in a good position to defend its majority.” Edsall posits that “In America today, the G.O.P. has bested the Democratic Party in the symbolic manipulation of controversial sociocultural issues…” and that an array of demographic developments including a “geographic distribution of voters” that gives the Republican Party “a strong built-in advantage in the competition for control of the House and Senate.” And since he takes both parties to task for various strengths and weaknesses, he notes that the Republican Party’s conservative agenda “does not have the decisive support of the people,” and accuses them of further polarizing the electorate and cynically forcing it “to pick between extremes,” and of using “the slimmest of political margins” to try “to remake America – as well as America’s role in the world.”