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"It would be the highest irony if the evidence of conservative evolution came on the occasion of a bruising midterm election, but two stories by the media today suggest that conservatives have changed the paradigm of politics over the last generation. A CNN poll indicates that a majority of Americans now believes that government tries to do too much, while The New York Times reports that Democrats have begun producing less liberal candidates in order to win seats in Congress.... The smaller-government message will still win elections, but the question may be for whom it wins those contests when the GOP fails to tend to its Reagan legacy. Regardless, the difference between the 1970s and now demonstrates the power of Reagan's vision -- which was not that different from that of the Founding Fathers" -- columnist Ed Morrissey, writing in the Washington Examiner
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