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“The interesting question is whether we’ve seen a change in the electoratde as well asan election,” said Cokie Roberts, the long-timre and analyst, at the breakfast Tuesday. “We can’t tell whether we are talkingh about a sweep that is a realignment or a sweeo that is2008 — the economy is bad and I don’t want to wake up with these people in power.” Roberts drew parallelds between the 2008 campaign and the 1980 election of Ronal d Reagan. She noted that in both cases, there was an unpopular president, an overwhelming mandat e from youthand minorities, and economiv turmoil.
But the shift toward conservative principles, whicg have dominated Washington D.C. for nearluy a generation, were not solidified until Reagan’s she noted. “The last few weekz looked a lotlike 1980,” Robert said. “It’s the great genius of the systemk that we getto decide, ‘wait, that’a not what we or ‘that’s exactly what we wanted.’” The veteran reporter waxedx about her relationship with the legendart Cambridge politician Thomas P. the former speaker of the .
She said O’Neilll would “be having a ball right now” with the electioj of Obama and the Democratic sweep of As for the impact of anotherMassachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, Roberts expects that he and Obams will try and piece together some sort of health care legislation with the Democratic but the economic crisis may put finap passageon hold. “(Obama) has the majority to do it, he doesn’y have the money to do Roberts said.