When I first entered the field headed toward public office, I was asked, “What does conservatism mean to you?” I must admit, I did not have a solid answer.
himself a sui generous figure or is he a kiclintonian figure? i addressed some of this. the r word, realignment, is something that people are talking about. there was a reagan realignment, and basically you could argue that this is finally the end of the reagan realignment, and there s a kind of obama realignment now. so the question is, is this realignment inheritable? one of the things michael discovered with all of the work that he did with the numbers crunchers is that they started to find in the last six or seven weeks of the campaign these supposedly undecided people who didn t like politics, didn t like realms, didn t like democrats. you know what? they like barack obama. they saw him as someone who was outside of politics. even the first debate which we asked him about, and he had a hilarious answer about, even the first debate they thought, well, yeah, he s not playing the game. so the question is, this whatever it is, this 15%, right, is that inheritable by somebody