Let's talk about replacing GWBush in 2004.

There was always more to this story than was reported, IMHO...

"For George W. Bush, failure has no consequences. There's always someone who'll infuse cash, do favors, or clean up a mess...The lack of consequences has led to a sense of entitlement, that has resulted in a sense of infallibility: failure becomes success because of who I am; therefore, who I am means that I can't fail."

"Everyone is right in his or her own personal vacuum. Everyone is right if there's enough money to make people think so. But when we enter the public arena, we have to contend with all those damned other people who aren't on our payroll, in our families, in need of a favor or on our A list."

"This...accounts for Bush's genuine confusion when he has to confront the lives of normal people. He has no way to understand people whose hopes and lives can crash and burn. He has no system to account for a plurality of opinion, and he has no motivation to come to terms with anything more complex than the 10-second sound bite."

The conservative Republican majority of the 1980s exploited the dissatisfaction with the civil rights movement and the 1960s counter-culture to win the white South and parts of the ethnic North. Those areas, combined with the Republicans' traditional base in the farms of the prairies and the boardrooms of the North, gave the party a majority that lasted until the early 1990s. Since then, however, a new Democratic majority -- different from either its New Deal ancestors or its conservative Republican rivals -- has been emerging.
This new Democratic majority is rooted in the growth of a post-industrial economy. The old industrial economy was based in cities and organized around assembly-line manufacturing, farming, and mining; the new post-industrial economy is based in large metropolitan areas -- or "ideopolises" -- that include cities and suburbs and are organized around the production of ideas and services. Many of these ideopolises are found in the North and far West -- like metropolitan Boston, Silicon Valley or the Seattle area -- but they can also be found in the North Carolina Research Triangle, the Maryland and Virginia suburbs of D.C., and the Tuscon and Phoenix areas in Arizona.
During the 1980s, many of the people in these areas voted for Republicans; but in the 1990s, they began to elect Democrats, and the Democratic party itself began to change to reflect the priorities of the people who live there. They include a growing number of professionals and technicians -- from computer programmers and financial analysts to teachers and nurses.
A quarter or so of the jobs in Austin, Raleigh-Durham, Boston or San Francisco are held by these kind of workers, many of whom are women who joined the workforce since the 1960s. Plentiful, too, are low-level service and information workers, including waiters, hospital orderlies, sales clerks, janitors and teachers' aides. Many of these jobs have been filled by Hispanics and African-Americans. Together, professionals, women, and minorities -- bolstered by blue-collar workers attracted to the Democrats' stands on economic issues -- have formed powerful coalitions that now dominate the politics of many of these ideopolises
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