Indira Gandhi and her spawn retained a dominant role within the Congress Party even after being voted out of power in 1977, and of course the 2008 election here in the United States could end up replicating the "Benazir-Nawaz-Benazir-Nawaz" pattern of 1990s Pakistan with a crudely analogous (and longer-lasting) "Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton" pattern of our own. [read post]