Tomgram: Steve Fraser, Concocting the Perfect Electoral Storm

Back in February of this year, writing about the history of turning-point elections, Steve Fraser asked a question, but didn't answer it: Would campaign 2008, he wondered, turn out to be a rare presidential election of historic proportions? After all, the Democrats had recaptured the House and Senate only months before -- and mightn't that have been "a signal" on the horizon of such an upcoming electoral turning point? Just ten months later, in a new economic moment, he's ready to answer his question, definitively.