THOMAS SCHALLER

Jim Joyner links to this piece by Tom Schaller, which is a print version of a talk that he gave here at Oswego a few weeks ago. Schaller counsels the Democrats to forget about winning in the south and instead focus on what he considers to be a new swing region, the western states, where Democrats have been making significant gains over the past decade. I'm sympathetic to this argument, and not only from a strategy point of view -- it would allow Democrats to stop trying to defend cultural ground that they really shouldn't want to win anyway. Have to think about this some more, though.