I've always said I thought it would take 3 terms of Dem presidents to "de-Republican" DC. I don't mean drive them out of town, just get a bit closer to parity on how much the town (including media) is dominated by Republican narratives about the world. There are "journalists" who you can tell have nothing but Republican staffers still on their "rolodex" (these days I assume it's whatever internet chat program people use now. Lost track after google inexplicably mostly killed gchat). It's been a Republican town since Nixon. The Clinton era did nothing to change that for reasons you might remember. Obama did, some, but needed just a few more years...
