"Social democratic ideas are losing their grip on Sweden, and we are getting more and more individualistic.
Even in a state like Illinois that leans Democratic in general elections, Republican voters in the rural areas are getting more conservative, not less.
"It certainly appears that he's got more control over Congress," Bob Kerrey, a former Democratic senator from Nebraska, said of Mr. Bush.
"And she shares the mission of Emily's List — getting more Democratic women into office.
(Some Republicans are arguing from the opposite direction: because Congress is going to get more Democratic, better to return a Republican to the White House).The merits of divided government aside, I think this fear is overblown.
It's important for investors to get more democratic access to healthy, small, growing private, risky companies.
It doesn't really get more democratic than that.
The President said, 'Well, I don't know him.' So I just said, 'You will.' " Illinois has been getting steadily more Democratic in recent years.
He also has a pretty firm grip on Reno and Carson City.By contrast, Clark County, home to Las Vegas and 1.6m of the state's 2.2m people, seems to be getting gradually more Democratic.
But interactive fiction has been getting ever more democratic, with recent years yielding a profusion of creation tools like Twine and Inklewriter, which are designed to put the tools for interactive writing into the hands of just about anyone who'd like to give it a shot.
