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<DIV></DIV>I agree with Jay that the Republican party today is an extremely
fragile coalition and think it could break up if there is a landslide Democratic
victory this election.
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<DIV>Democrats are also a fragile coalition of hourly wage workers,
environmentalists, lawyers, academics, public employees and members of the media
and entertainment industries (except conservative talk and Christian radio and
TV), but not nearly as fragile as the Republicans.</DIV>
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<DIV>If Jay is right that a coalition of Democratic and Republican financial
conservatives will form a new party, I think the US will end up like the UK with
three major parties (left, center and right) or perhaps, like Canada, more
than three parties with representation in Congress. The new US party of the left
would be a coalition of liberal Democrats and libertarian Republicans; the
center would be the financial conservatives and the right would be the current
social conservatives.</DIV>
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