Here is an idea for a field trip or an article for enterprising journalist thinking outside the box.  Take a car from Washington, D.C. and drive all the way to San Francisco.  Make a few stops, and I guarantee you that the journalist will see a lot of red, as in GOP territory.      The conventional wisdom is that the GOP is shrinking and that the Democrats are on the right side of history.  Again, not so fast, as the Washington Post reported this week: In Obama’s first year in office, buoyed by the biggest presidential election victory since 1988, the Democrats expanded their House majority to 257-178; in the Senate, they could count a filibuster-proof majority for the first time since the Jimmy Carter era. As a result, their numbers were robust enough to muscle through virtually all of Obama’s early agenda, most notably his health-care overhaul. They lost control, however, in the devastating midterm election of 2010, which...(Read Full Post)