CSpan question: Are Republicans the dominant party? [View All]

They asked this due to this Weekly Standard article by Fred Barnes -
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/259yvdec.asp
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The (Finally) Emerging Republican Majority
From the October 27, 2003 issue: GOP officials don't like to talk about it, but they have become the dominant party.
by Fred Barnes

AFTER THE 1972 AND 1980 ELECTIONS, Republicans said political realignment across the country would soon make them the dominant party. It didn't happen. Now, despite highly favorable signs in the 2002 midterm elections and the California recall, Republicans fear a jinx. Realignment? they ask. What realignment?

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I think it is obvious they are in the majority for now, but I think the American people will punish the GOP for their work or lack of it since 2002.

Some callers mentioned the optimism of the GOP and the pessimism of the left. True, untrue?