Regime change: If the essence of America resided in the office of the president, then, yes, we'd be in trouble. But America is more ordinary, more normal and more sensible than the Bush administration, according to new research cited by Martin Kettle in today's Guardian.

One particularly interesting point Judis and Teixeira make is that professionals are turning Democrat because they want to focus on the quality of the service or ideas they provide. They see corporations and large institutions as imposing 'alien profit-and-loss standards onto their work. . . Once advocates of laissez-faire capitalism, they have grown increasingly amenable to government regulation of business.' [The New Republic].

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