So what are they trying to say?

Short little theory about recent electoral history that no one in the establishment is willing to entertain because it is just too scary.   We have the trouncing of democratic governors and it's announced as a fundamental shift in the electorate, away from the fundamental shift in the electorate back in 2008.  I might posit the following: neither election represented any fundamental shifts, and ideologically, the nation is pretty much in the same place it was in 2004.  What's at issue is a...