By Mike Johnson
Those professional political consultants who told us 18 months ago that 2008 was going to be an election of seismic change should raise their retainers.
How many elections compare: Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Reagan?
This was as historic as those and in some respects maybe more so. This election produced transformational change:
- in the way we elect our leaders, who elects them, and how they raise their money;
- in the direction in which the country is headed, both domestically and internationally;
- in the two parties, how they define themselves and how they now approach the incessant, interminable quest for political power.
- in our society where change that has been occurring gradually for sometime, but never really appreciated until now.