First off, Dems are not a 50% force politically. They are basically, minorities, wealthy white status-obsessed yuppies, and the media. That’s it.

It’s only been the very bad performance of Republicans that have allowed these inroads to take place. Dems do poorly with White voters, particularly white working-middle class voters, and anyone outside urban centers.

This is typical among the elites in the West (Olmert, etc.) No one wants to expend any energy under the fantasy that Western industrial and post-industrial economic power = physical security.

However, the “gated communities” and “security condos” that the Western elites like Obama have built for themselves are falling apart, because poor nations can and have made nukes too. Pakistan is a mess, nukes poorly guarded, and now Iran with nukes shortly makes it a fatal mess.

Regardless of who is President, US cities will die. That much is frighteningly clear. Pakistan and Iran can each credibly point fingers at each other, while deniable terrorist groups make demands that fit the power-agenda of each (withdrawal from Afghanistan, apology to bin Laden, release of prisoners like KSM, withdrawal from the Gulf, etc.) Or more cities die.

Obama of course would give in because that’s what weak, appeasement minded Liberals always do (Jimmy Carter, Olmert, Clinton, etc.) No one wants to face reality: the spread of nuclear technology and global trade allows poor nations to kill American cities with near impunity.