The fissure rent by this plurality as it escapes partisan captivity will be the fault line around which a party realignment occurs in America.

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Nominally, Japan's slow moving political realignment has produced a kind of two party system, with the long-entrenched Liberal Democratic Party pitted against the New Frontier Party, which is made up mainly of dissidents from the LDP and the religious-based Komei party.

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Or is this an election that shows a realignment of the country and of political coalitions and consigns the losing party to irrelevancy or reform?

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