Behind The Curve

I've been making the case lately that there may be a sea change in the body politics in 2008. Glenn Greenwald makes the case why:

In one sense, it is quite unhealthy in a democracy for such a large majority of Americans to so distrust the political and media establishment that they even believe in advance that war reports from our leading General will be nothing more than self-serving and misleading propaganda. But in another, more important sense, when a democracy's political establishment becomes as rotted and deceitful and corrupt as ours has become -- enabling the most unpopular President in modern American history to continue what is so blatantly a senseless war for years and years, in complete defiance of what Americans want -- the one encouraging sign is that a majority realizes how corrupt our establishment is and has stopped believing anything they say.

Glenn, in his post, cites the data that supports this proposition. Things can change between now and 2008. But if the current dynamic stays in place, there are a whole bunch of Democrats who are facing a tough election, not just Republicans. These polls numbers support a "throw all the bums out" mentality for 2008. Many voters are already voting with their clickers and newspaper subscriptions. We'll see what they do at the polls.