There will be no cure until the Media (NPR included) get out of bed with the Democrat party. The left does not fear what they say or do, they know it will go mostly unnoticed as the media (NPR included) will not report it. Instead of reporting the news as it is, the media (NPR included) report positive things only about the left, while reporting only negative stories about the right. Until journalists become journalists again, politicians will never change. I look forward to NPR being defunded shortly after the 2012 election. Our tax dollars are being used as political propoganda time for it to end.

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/13/142288879/finding-the-cure-for-pendulum-politics?sc=fb&cc=fp