DECIDEDLY PURPLE. E.J. Dionne Jr. ponders whether Mark Warner will be able to turn purple Virginia blue, and help bump the red/blue divide a little further south. But the thesis of his article is that the Dems can, and will, win these states by putting forth moderate candidates who appeal to suburbanites. "Safe, soothing and very suburban: These could be the characteristics of the new American majority," he writes. But could this new American majority make any major progressive strides?
