It will be years before we know whether Karl Rove in 2004 achieved his dream of engineering a deep shift in American party politics.
It could point toward a backlash against the gentrification of liberalism, the Democratic Party and much of American politics.
And our hope and expectation is that the members of Congress from both parties will come back with a heightened sense of urgency to put the American people ahead of party, ahead of politics, and to do something right for the economy.
Democrat politicians paint the Tea Party as an extreme fringe of American politics.
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Use the corresponding questions and activities from the April 18 CNN NEWSROOM curriculum guide to help foster a discussion on the role that the two-party political system has played in American politics.
Mr Santelli's televised rant against bail-outs has gone down in history as the birth harangue of the tea-party movement, which went on in double-quick time to capture the Republican Party and yank the whole of American politics sharply to the right.
In both of those elections, notes The Almanac of American Politics, he upset a favored Democratic rival for the party's nomination.
After taking over Anglo American Mr Oppenheimer was content to keep politics as a hobby, supporting the Progressive Party and its sole member of Parliament, Helen Suzman.
The biggest problem for the Liberals, a centrist, big-tent party, is that Canadian politics has become less European and consensual and more American and ideological.
Carroll, senior scholar at the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics would point out something else that those women have in common: party lines.
Today we don't really see, either in the Democratic Party or outside of the Democratic Party, the makings of a new movement that will exploit the weaknesses in this dominant coalition and take American politics into a new era and to a different era, not just the return of the old liberalism.
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