Health care was always the big asterisk, and now, with Obama's re-election, this "right," as Franklin Roosevelt called it, is extended within our borders.
As has become clear this election, the Right can easily link distinct sources of perceived external threat to one another in Americans' minds.
They understand the importance of getting this election right.
Was Dick Morris finally going to get something about this election right?
"What's fascinating about this election right now is that there's really a vacuum in terms of core, concrete ideas," he said.
Democrats are going to hate this election, right?
And referring to one of Margaret Thatcher's landslide election victories in the 1980s, he added: "If we get this right, this election campaign could be more like 1983 than 1997".
"The president knows his legacy, and maybe his re-election, depends on getting this right," another administration official said.
So long as the President of Argentina doesn't invade the Falklands, they must be odds-on to lose the next election -- provided Labour gets this right.
So too with elections – the right received a thrashing, but also a second chance, which is as it should be.
In the scattered places where women could vote in some types of local elections, they began to lose this right in the late 18th century.
