Shifting Politics Reflect Changes in Regional Alignments

By Norman Ornstein
Roll Call Contributing Writer

November 4, 2008

January will bring big change to Washington, D.C., by definition. We will have a new president with a different style and different set of priorities than the current one. Same for the Cabinet (at least most of it). We will have a Congress with many more Democrats in both chambers, possibly larger numbers than Democrats have seen since the 1970s.

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