I probably shouldn’t post to this comic book writer’s blog — because I don’t ever want to see Jay Leno’s face again — but meh.  The “Electoral Lock“.

Myra Adams offers the interesting (and to some, surely infuriating) theory that Democrats these days go into each presidential election with a simple advantage: A near-lock on 246 of the 270 electoral votes it takes to win.

This is due in no small part to the fact that the youth and aged out of youth only know successful Democratic Presidents.

Circa 1991.

  “From 1932 to 1964, the Democratic Party won seven of nine presidential contests. The Republicans have won five of six since and, according to virtually universal expert political opinion, will win again in 1992. The experts, in fact, have been arguing for some while that the national electorate, as scattered among the 50 states, has crystallized into a GOP “Electoral Lock” on the White House, even as local electorates continue to deliver Democratic majorities to the U.S. Congress and most state governments. Disheartened Democrats also contemplate demographic trends that show younger voters increasingly identifying with the party of the “successful Presidents” they have known, Ronald Reagan and now, George Bush. It begins to seem that the Republican Party may become even more dominant as the Ruling Party than it was in the seven decades after the 1860 victory of its first presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln, a period in which the GOP won 14 of 18 presidential elections. This thinking is becoming conventional wisdom.”

Yes.  Conventional Wisdom.

But these are things I bandy about before.  Why?  I don’t know.  Boredom?  Scramble the problems of American politics.

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