rightward• There, the voters' rightwarddrift has pushed Republicans into the White House for 20 years out of the past 24.• At the outset of his presidency, Mitterand was a leader seemingly out of step with the rightward drift of the West.• On that evidencealone Mr Gummer has always been a rightward lurcher.• After college, they moved on to literary and academiccareers and began a rightwardmarch through the 1940s and 1950s.• Yes, but because the speed of light is finite, there will be a delay between the leftward and rightward pushes.• a rightwardshift in Americanpolitics• Again, we can expect long-terminfluences such as increasing income and wealth to cause a rightward shift of the demand curve.