Some post-election thoughts from your humble blogger, a week later and with recent events taken into account:

Have we just witnessed another revolution, what historians will one day call the "Obama Revolution"? Barack Obama and the Democrats have certainly won a resounding victory on par with, if not exactly equal to, Reagan's 1980 triumph. What's not so clear -- and likely won't be for some time -- is whether America has made a shift to the left, heralding a new liberal era, or if Democratic dominance of the last two elections is merely a corrective -- a sign of displeasure with the party in power but not an ideological paradigm shift.

The electoral evidence at least suggests that something big is happening to America's ideological moorings: Factor out Obama's victory for a moment and consider: Since 2006, Democrats have won 51 House seats and 12 Senate seats, giving them a hold on Congress not seen since the 1970s. They have pushed the GOP out of the Northeast; made inroads into the Republican-dominated South; and are well ahead of the GOP in winning the West. Demographically, Democrats have put their mark on the fastest growing minority in the country, Hispanics, and seem to have won the loyalty of an entire generation of younger voters.

And yet, despite this, RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, among others, still insisted the other day that America is a "center-right" nation. But then Duncan has some evidence on his side as well.

If that struck your fancy, keep reading.