2008 - Change or Status Quo

I've been vocal in my dismay on the attention already being forced on us about the 2008 Presidential election.

There was an excellent article http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=167536 that articulates a lot about the kinds of things we could potentially anticipate reading about and indeed measuring the landscape of candidates against.

Is the country really pointing towards a transformational change in the political structure and debate, or was this past midterm election a blip due to the massive unpopularity of Bush, Iraq and Republican indifference to real problems?

I'm going to have to keep re-reading this article and thinking about these things, but for now - read the article and see what you think.