Arnold Schwarzenegger won an extraordinary victory on Tuesday, riding a wave of voter rebellion.
They see a voter rebellion against the Republican Party in the Republican bastion of Nassau County.
He became the first independent elected governor of an American state since the Watergate-inspired voter rebellion of 1974.
It is not the first time that school property taxes have sparked voter rebellion on Long Island.
If there was any comfort in the week to the Republicans, it came in the form of the 50 percent Congressional pay rise that has generated a voter rebellion.
But the day still offered dramatic measure of how an earthquake of voter rebellion has heaved the national political landscape.
Some of the leaders in the movement have their roots in a previous voter rebellion that emerged in the late 1980's.
Democrats hope the voter rebellion will continue and maybe even help them capture the Republican redoubt.
When he was eighteen, he ran for mayor and won on the strength of, in his words, "anti-establishment voter rebellion."
Mrs Thatcher believed that greater local democracy would lead to a voter rebellion against high spending local authorities, forcing them to be less ambitious and more efficient.