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	Realigning election - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Realigning election or realignment are terms from political history and political science describing a dramatic change in politics.
		Of all the realigning elections, this one musters the most agreement from political scientists and historians; it is the archetypal realigning election.
		The 1994 election is the most prominent in terms of its impact on seat holding by the parties at both the state and national level, and constitutes a realigning election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Realigning_election (3663 words)

	"Populism and Political Realignment"
		Deviating elections can occur for a variety of reasons: the majority party nominates a candidate seen as an extremist, the minority party nominates an incredibly popular personality, the majority party undergoes a period of infighting and factional strife, etc. Regardless, the minority party wins the election but does not permanently alter the party system.
		Realigning elections, since they represent a desire to permanently alter the status quo, feature an abnormally high interest by the electorate in all phases of the political process and record voter turnouts occur on such election days.
		Realigning elections are characterized by definitive conflicting issue stances by the major political parties.
	www.austincc.edu /lpatrick/his1302/populism.html (2127 words)

	Wikinfo \| U.S. presidential election, 1800
		The election of 1800 is often considered a realigning election.
		The election went to the United States House of Representatives, which over the course of the next six days cast a total of 35 ballots, with Thomas Jefferson receiving the votes of 8 state delegations each time - one short of the necessary majority of nine.
		As a result of the problems arising from the election, and to a lessert extent from the election of 1796, the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1804, providing that electors make a distinct choice between their selections for President and Vice President.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=U.S._presidential_election,_1800 (450 words)

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		Elections at realignment juncture are marked by insurgent-led ideological polarization in the House, realigning elections hinge on national issues, nonrealignment election on local ones.
		electoral realignments are associated with major governmental policy they bring on long spans of unified party control of government’ that is, of the House, Senate and presidency; such spans are a precondition of major policy innovation.
		Realignment genre has impeded our understanding: 1)it has licensed scholars to make claims claims about public policy formation that lack concreteess or grasp or both; 2) fed tendency to favor independent variables or explanatory theories over actual policy patterns at an exorbitant ratio; 3) focused interest on relatively barren 1890s.
	www.nd.edu /~mflynn4/Comp/New_From_CD/Mayhew_2002.doc (612 words)

	5 Party functions
		Realigning elections have occurred at regular intervals through the course of American history and they have been essential for the development of the American political order.
		The last realigning election should have occurred in 1968.
		If the 1968 election was a dealigning election it suggests that the period from 1968 to the present is a unique period in American history.
	www.ipfw.edu /pols/syllabi/055/Y103BARTstudyguideII.htm (215 words)

	One Last Thing \| Election Day's numbers reveal political landscape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Elections are clarifying moments when the rhetoric and theory of politics are stripped away and concrete facts, in the form of vote totals, are exposed for all to see.
		Which means that, as far as Bush's political legacy is concerned, the 2006 election was the voters' last chance to render a verdict on his presidency.
		The 2002 midterm election was a success, but circumstances (i.e., the war on terror) were in Bush's favor.
	www.topix.net /content/kri/0567110087047487959436848707650571665435 (1020 words)

	Realigning elections
		Jackson's election to the presidency could be considered the first time a candidate was elected with support of the common people versus a candidate (Adams) who was supported by the rich and powerful.
		Therefore 2000 could be seen as a realigning election, as it solidified the Republican hold of the heartland, and the Democrat hold of the coasts.
		We have not seen a realigning election since 1968, as of yet, though it could be argued that what we witnessed this year with the return of working-class Reagan Democrats (or at least their progeny) back to the Democratic fold could portend a realignment either in 2008 or sometime within the next decade.
	uselectionatlas.org /FORUM/index.php?topic=26926.msg1066648 (2920 words)

	AEI - Short Publications
		The 2004 election appears to be one of those contests that was determined by long-term trends, and thus carries important lessons for strategists in both parties.
		Before the 2004 election, the pundits were asserting confidently that a presidential election is like a decision to extend the contract of an employee.
		The last realigning election was the election of 1936, in the midst of the worst depression ever experienced in the U.S., when Roosevelt won 61 percent of the vote and the Democrats swept the field in a huge landslide.
	www.aei.org /publications/pubID.23301,filter.all/pub_detail.asp (3635 words)

	Situation normal \| Features \| The Australian
		Those elections didn't dramatically alter the political course of the country, nor is this year's election likely to.
		The elections of 1938 and 1966 simply restored a semblance of political equilibrium after the devastating Republican defeats in earlier elections.
		As luck would have it, realigning elections - when one party clobbers the other in national, state, and local races to emerge as the new majority party - have usually occurred in presidential election years.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20695578-28737,00.html (1062 words)

	Social Security and Political Realignments
		It is generally believed that a realigning election happens only after a shift in partisan preferences, though not necessarily policy preferences, among the electorate.
		Given this, it is quite likely that the significance of the 2004 elections, though continually being downplayed in front of the cameras by the usual suspects, has in no way been lost upon the Democratic Party leadership and its members.
		And, with the election of Howard Dean as the party’s National Committee Chairman, it should be infinitely clear that, for the time being, the New Deal Democratic wing of the party prevailed.
	www.intellectualconservative.com /article4184.html (938 words)

	The 2004 Election-The Oregon Stater 12-04
		But as early as the election of 1796, roughly the current structure emerged in which electors are “pledged” to vote for a candidate of one or the other of the major political parties.
		The great unanswered question is whether 2004 was a “realigning election,” one in which new political divisions became evident that will last for a generation.
		It is typical of realigning elections that new voters appear in large numbers, but in such elections they have usually chosen the political party about to establish its dominance by wide margins.
	alumni.oregonstate.edu /stater/issues/Stater0412/2004election.htm (2110 words)

	Political Science 101 \| TPMCafe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As I was told time and again by my first advisor in grad school, "You have to first define your terms." And by the definition of "realigning election" that the political scientists who study and obsess over these things use, 2004 was not by any stretch of the imagination a realigning election.
		The basic definition of a "realignment" is when there is a significant alteration of the basic partisan attachments of the electorate.
		That is, a crisis that precipitates a realignment (i.e.
	earlyreturns.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/8/11/141312/555 (1229 words)

	American Thinker: Misreading the Election Tea Leaves
		However, in the 1938 elections, the Democrats lost seven seats in the Senate, and an astounding 81 seats in the House.
		The 1938 and 1946 midterms therefore effectively demonstrated that it is not at all uncommon after a realigning election for there to be several cycles when the momentum party does poorly at the polls.
		Adding it all up, it appears that the midterm elections in a president's sixth year in office have virtually no predictive impact on what is going to happen two years later when the country goes to elect a new Congress and a new president.
	www.americanthinker.com /2006/11/misreading_the_election_tea_le.html (1509 words)

	Steinhöfels Standpunkte • A Realigning Election
		Elections stolen by a corrupt Ukrainian government with the connivance of Russia's ruler, Vladimir Putin, were reversed by a massive display of "people power" in the streets of Kiev and other Ukrainian cities.
		The elections in Palestine were critical to this progress, as was the death of Yasser Arafat.
		There will, for example, be elections in Lebanon this summer, where an opposition victory could spell the beginning of the end of Syria's imperial role in that country.
	www.steinhoefel.de /weeklystandard_artikel.htm (1526 words)

	OpinionEditorials.com — Election 2004: The Death of Liberalism? - Sheppard
		Certainly, one of the key post mortems of Election 2004 is the failure of the exit polling, and the possibility of some bizarre cabal being involved.
		However, it is quite conceivable that what fostered the eventual realignment is the Democratic Party’s failure to recognize the significance of the mid-90’s Congressional shift, and to properly address it in subsequent elections.
		If the past is any harbinger of the future, the 2004 election might end up being just as significant as one almost two centuries previous with the only difference being that this time, it’s the New Deal Democrats being erased from the political landscape rather than the Federalists.
	www.opinioneditorials.com /freedomwriters/nsheppard_20041104.html (1582 words)

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		Critical elections signify either a partisan realignment, in which the electorate decisively chooses the party currently not in the majority, or a partisan conversion where the public returns the majority party to power.
		In the immediate aftermath of a realigning election, the Court is still composed of members of the “old regime”, while the lawmaking majority has changed significantly.
		In a general interrupted time series model that simply operationalized each critical election as a shock, we found only a few shifts in the level and rate of invalidations—in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—that could be explained as a function of the periods between those critical elections.
	www.nku.edu /~baranowskim/academia/ussccrit.doc (3597 words)

	Chapter 8 Lecture Notes
		Not to be confused with political action committees (the campaign and election organizations created in recent years by many special interest groups to support their political views).
		Party eras were punctuated, begins, or is made more certain by critical elections, i.e., a realigning election, in which the results set off a long-term shift in the partisan makeup of the electorate, and in which new issues appeared that divided the electorate and party coalitions undergo general realignment.
		A party realignment are rare events in the United States, usually associated with a major national crisis or trauma, in which one party's majority domination is replaced with another's.
	www.cathedral-elpaso.org /government/ap/lectures.htm (5377 words)

	Syllabus
		Identify the major groups which defected from the Democratic party in presidential elections after 1968 and before the election of President Clinton.
		In your essay explain why single member districts and plurality elections usually go to the candidates of the two major parties instead of to minor party candidates.
		Was the presidential election of 2004 a realigning election?
	www.csulb.edu /~astevens/posc322/files/Ex1rev.html (345 words)

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		One way to think about elections is to look at them as a verdict on the previous administration.
		If the minority party candidate wins and during the election cycle her party becomes the majority party, we call that a realigning election.
		More on elections: When a presidential candidate is successful in gaining office he usually has coattails.
	www.psci.unt.edu /jbooks/lec3d.html (271 words)

	Johns Hopkins Gazette: March 20, 1995
		GOP Strategist Finds Seeds of Party's Dominance in History By Mike Field For William Kristol, the election of '94 may well prove to be the long-predicted realigning election marking the end of 60 years of Democratic party dominance at the national level.
		Before election day, Democrats controlled two-thirds of the state legislative chambers; now Republicans control a majority of those bodies." The past election not only put record numbers of new Republicans in office, it also demonstrated two characteristics typical of realignment elections, he said.
		The Republican Party's ability to turn this election into a long-term national realignment in their favor will depend on if they can govern successfully and lay the groundwork for further advances." Judging from historical patterns, that pos-sibility seems likely.
	www.jhu.edu /gazette/janmar95/mar2095/20kristl.html (746 words)

	were the following elections 'realignments'?
		The realignment of this period had largely taken place four years earlier, when Al Smith was the Democratic standard-bearer, and it was completed in 1936 (more on that later).
		The first two elections of Franklin Roosevelt are important because for the first time fls began to vote for the Democratic Party instead of the "Party of Lincoln".
		The realignment toward Republican strength in the South began in 1964, continued on the presidential level in 1968, and eventually continued to the state and local level over the next quarter century.
	www.uselectionatlas.org /FORUM/index.php?topic=41636.15 (1495 words)

	Charles E. Cook—The Cook Political Report
		But while an important election, it was not a transformational or realigning election, which is when a decisive win at the top is also decisive at every level beneath.
		A transformational, realigning election is when you have a decisive win at the top that is also decisive at every level beneath it, big gains from top to bottom of the ballot.
		The thing that determined this presidential election was obviously 119,000 votes out of 5.5 million cast in the state of Ohio, out of 120 million cast nationwide.
	www.economicclub.org /Pages/archive/fulltext/arch-cook.htm (4907 words)

	MyDD :: Dem's Congressional Lead Lags Indicators
		In fact, the world-wide "triumph" of neo-liberalism (which has produced vastly diminished growth around the world over the past 25 years--see report here [PDF]) is being challenged everywhere--including in the streets of America, with the nationwide May Day marhces and boycott.
		Realigning elections are about the In party, not the Out party.
		In the 1994 election, Democratic incumbents, who enjoyed the majority party's traditional fund-raising edge, took in, on average, 17 percent ($91,000) more in contributions than GOP incumbents.
	www.mydd.com /story/2006/5/3/105519/6347 (1184 words)

	1896: Election Results
		Historians have seen 1896 as a "realigning election," though it confirmed results that had already been apparent in the 1894 congressional races: by 1897, Republicans had won sweeping control of the White House and both houses of Congress.
		The 1896 election showed a sharp differentiation between voters in the economic "metropole"--the Northeast and industrial areas--and those in the "periphery"--the South and West.
		At least six fatal or serious shooting affrays marked the State election in Georgia, and in Kentucky, West Virginia, Missouri and elsewhere, murders have occured at political meetings....
	projects.vassar.edu /1896/electionresults.html (1088 words)

	Take the Election, Please BY: David Trumbull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		No one man can do it, and all the people are not going to do it, so its going to run in spite of all the mistakes that can happen to it.
		As the poet lariat noted on the eve of another realigning election, this country is too big for any one man to spoil.
		The signs are out up and down corridors of New York and Los Angeles: “Republicans Need not Apply.” By their very attempt to be “relevant,” the entertainment celebrities have made TV and the movies, formerly great shapers of society, quite irrelevant due to a lack of any engagement with alternative views.
	www.republicanvoices.org /take_election_please.html (390 words)

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