National Review's John Fund has a column that looks at three recent elections in three different countries, in all of which the conservatives won. The state senate recall elections in Colorado, plus national elections in both Norway and Australia, all were won by conservatives.
About the three elections, Fund generalizes as follows:
Liberals forgot that their priorities aren’t often those of the average voter. In each case, they were punished for it.
That may be too facile; for as Tip O'Neill famously said, "All politics is local."
