You Have to Admit It's Getting Better

Hard times in Republican-town: a new Gallup poll shows steep losses for the GOP across all demographics except conservatives, "frequent churchgoers," and senior citizens. (Via MyDD and TPM.)

More and more I think there's only two possibilities: Either the GOP is in fact in a death spiral and will actually disappear as a national party within the next decade, or the GOP has realized that in a two-party system you don't actually need to say you're sorry; you can just sit back and wait for your opponents to have bad luck, then go crazy once you're back in office. After that incumbency will protect you for a good, long while, and even to the extent it doesn't you can accomplish long-term goals in a very short timespan with party unity, weak opposition, and a compliant, mendacious press.