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Sen. Barack Obama’s historic victory in the presidential race spearheaded a sea-change election. It marks the end of the conservative era that has dominated our politics since 1980 and the beginning of a new era of progressive reform, driven by an emerging progressive majority. That's the finding of a nationwide poll by Democracy Corps and the Campaign for America's Future done during and immediately after the November 4 election. more »

In hotly contested 2008 congressional races, Democratic winners were—overwhelmingly—real progressives who campaigned more »

Based on polling from a variety of sources, this report concludes that the conservative ideology is losing favor with the American public and that progressive approaches on such issues as the social safety net, government regulation and foreign policy are increasingly popular. more »

The 2008 election has the potential to be not simply one of change, as conventional wisdom suggests, but of sea-change—an election that marks the end of the conservative era that has dominated our politics for the past three decades.

"Progressives Rising—2008: A Sea-Change Election" details the signs of the emergence of that era, and cautions that progressives will not only have to continue to drive the debate in the election season, but will also have to define, expand and claim the mandate after the election.

• "The Decline of Conservatism," by Stan Greenberg
• "Conservatism is Dying," by Eric Lotke

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