Pejman Yousefzadeh looks over the right's spoils of the ballot:

It is nice to see that self-identifying Republicans may now be more populous than Democrats, but none of that will mean anything until there is a genuine national consensus on policy issues that is based specifically on conservative and libertarian principles. It is still far too easy to propagate and embrace New Deal and quasi-New Deal policies as the basis for our social programs. To form a genuine national coalition, it should become just as easy — if not easier — to embrace and propagate the conservative and libertarian alternatives to those policies.

One asset to consider is the number of Americans who would describe themselves as Republicans if leftist-controlled popular culture hadn't conditioned them from an early age to believe that one can only respectably be a Democrat or an independent. What's in a name? New media entities, including weblogs, have and will continue to weaken this intellectual and associative blockade.