Last Monday, 20th October, Demos hosted a talk about the 2008 US elections, with participants debating how transformational the results might be. Richard Reeves, Demos' director, chaired the event, with talks from Rick Perlstein, author of 'Nixonland'; Jonathan Freedland, columnist at The Guardian; Jim Sciutto, Senior Foreign Correspondant at ABC News; and James Crabtree, Senior Editor at Prospect.