Dead on there Wesley S! The Republican National Committee targeted the discontented white male voting bloc in this election. They aren't a very large voting bloc, mind you, but they were large enough to put the Republicans barely over the top.

Neither party needs to win by a landslide to be in control of the US economy--which, we should not forget, is the richest in the world. That does leave the system vulnerable to demagoguery at it's worst. And it's most effective. They certainly honed the message for the discontented white male with that "compassionate conservative" thing, didn't they?

And Claymore, telling us that Time magazine agrees with you isn't going to win any arguments. See "Wall Street loves Washington gridlock" stories. That is what moderate centrism brings in a two party system: gridlock.

Time magazine is the Republican working man's mouthpiece for Wall Street. The Republican "everyman" man nowadays is a white collar, middle class, 30 to 60 something, "I got mine and I want more" sort of working man. A very few of them are even men of color, like Colin Powell. They aren't the same Republican everyman as the Limbaugh/Springer Republican everyman. No, those educated, middle class Republican everymen view "those redneck Republicans" with the same contempt they do their educated, middle class moderate Democrat counterparts.