What’s It All Mean?

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The question on many minds today is what does it all mean?
The lengthy and contentious presidential campaign bought usright back where we started, Dem President, Dem Senate and Repub House, despitebillions spent trying to convince us to try something new. New York Timescolumnist Gail Collins wonders, “if we've moved into apost-political-consultant America.”
“You know, the last time I was in Ohio I found the people had heard so manyads they were numb. And they’d been called by so many people, and visited by somany party workers, that I began to think they had transcended all the wondersof modern election science and were just going to do whatever they would havedone if they’d been left in peace from the beginning.”
Gail and fellow columnist David Brooks coauthored this column today with their thoughts on what it all means.
David believes the “election was mostly about demographicsor more precisely about the way demographic shifts lead to cultural andpolitical shifts.”
 “Ronald Reagan wonwith an electorate that was nearly 90 percent white. Now the electorate isaround 72 percent white. And the white population is different — more educated,more centered in college towns, more socially diverse, more likely to live insingle-person households.”
“That means they are less likely to subscribe to the cowboyethos of the rugged individual. It doesn't mean they want to return to the NewDeal, but it does mean that the old Republican narrative can no longer win amajority.”
It’s a fun read, if you like this sort of stuff, even with its scary ending.