I'd like to hope something different, but they won't change their behavior at all.
Errr, what would you hope for?
I would like them to move in the direction of Bill Clinton economically, favoring free trade and cutting deficits. Socially, I don't mind the Democrats being socially liberal, but I just wish they would do it in a less radical fashion. Liberal democrats still don't understand that they piss off a lot of people with talk about abortion. You can be pro-choice and still want towards ending abortion. Finally, on foreign policy, I'm obviously a hawk, so we should move towards a more interventionist foreign policy.