The question of the moment is not “Who lost Iraq?” but rather “Is Iraq definitely lost?”

In this Bradley Lecture at AEI, Sean Trende, senior elections analyst for RealClearPolitics.com, places these elections in the larger scheme of American politics and explains how the radical shifts in our politics we've seen in the past few election cycles are really the norm and the previous stability the exception.

In 2008 Barack Obama carried voters under age 30 by a 66%-32% margin, according to the exit poll. In contrast, he carried voters 30 and over by only 50%-49%. But it doesn’t look like the Millennials are still 2-1 Democratic, at least to judge from two recent polls conducted in late November and early December.

A word to the wise for the Romney campaign: Get John Sununu off the airwaves.

Japan's economic performance has largely been written off over the past two decades. It shouldn't be—reform could build on the country's strong fundamentals.

Tactically, Pawlenty's mistakes are too numerous to count. But strategically, Pawlenty had the right idea: Be the most electable candidate to the right of Romney.

Mitt Romney was the John Kerry of the debate. He was far more articulate than Perry, but it was Romney who made the gaffe that will almost certainly appear in campaign ads that are probably being written as you read this, when he declared: "There are a lot of reasons not to elect me."