Dwayne Monroe wrote:
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> More and 'better' neoliberalism is his party's only response to a
> global crisis produced -- to a large extent -- by loosely fettered
> neoliberal policies.
The DP since the mid-50s has been moving steadily to "the right," and with each such move into the nominally "Republican" territory it fores and/or allows the RP to move even further to the right, thus creating that appearance of a widenting gap between the two parties that Doug notes. Now perhaps Obama has plunged so sharply rightwards that he is occupying so much of the Republican territory that to keep to hsi right they have to go (in the old saying) plumb loco.
Carrol