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But barring a seismic realignment, it is likely that New Jersey will retain its title as the A.T.M. state, where the campaign trail runs through an endless series of banquet halls and fund raisers.

It's not just the war in Iraq that prompted these hopes of realignment; it's the Bush administration's penchant for bellicosity, its barely concealed contempt for the United Nations and for many of America's traditional allies, its apparent confusion about how to deal with North Korea.

West Virginia, for instance, was an independent for most of its history until 1990 and if it were an odd-team-out under realignment it could look toward that option again.

While basketball has played a minuscule role in the impending realignment, it is hard to imagine Kansas basketball recruiting blue-chip athletes if it plays teams like Wyoming and Colorado State in the Mountain West.

"Given the very fluid political situation at present, including the possibility of political realignment, it is hard to forecast just what impact the outcome of the leadership election will have on the direction of longer-term economic policy," Takahide Kiuchi, an economist at the Financial and Economic Research Center at Nomura Securities, said in a report late Monday.

However, for those, like this newspaper, hoping for change in Japan, this is a moment not for hand-wringing gloom, but for hand-rubbing glee: Japanese politics may have entered its most exciting period in more than 50 years (see article).The excitement lies in the probable collapse of the old political order and the realignment it will herald.

The realignment had it's faults, but it could have been an exciting feature to muddle over in anticipation of the next season.

Sometimes amid the realignment frenzy, it is easy to focus on the chum instead of the fish.

There has indeed been an ideological realignment, but it has been at the party level, not the voter level.

One reason American policy-making has become "less stable, less effective, and less predictable" — in the words of the downgrade that Standard & Poor's handed to the United States on Friday night — is the enduring influence of V. O. Key's theory, and the seductive dream of realignment that it conjured up.

This election may or may not represent a party realignment, but it has certainly rewritten politics in the information age.