Now that the 2014 elections are over and national politics is all about 2016, Democrats have good reason to worry that, for all his success at the polls, President Obama will leave his party with a toxic legacy.
The Obama damage is two-fold. First, his success relied on a coalition that likely will not survive, or at least survive at full strength, without Obama himself on the ticket. Secondly, Obama drove a significant portion of white voters away from the Democratic Party.
Put those two things together — smaller Obama coalition and more alienated whites — and the result could be huge trouble for whoever the Democratic presidential nominee is in 2016.
First the coalition: Obama's powerful appeal to minorities, women, and young people propelled his decisive wins in 2008 and 2012. But those voters didn't show up at the polls in 2010 and 2014.
Some Democrats are confident the coalition will be back in 2016, when interest in a presidential race is far greater than during midterms. But will it return in the strength it showed in '08 and '12? Or will Democratic voting return to pre-Obama patterns?
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2 comments:
Obama did more to piss on Martin Luther King's dream than any white man has ever done. Look at the job rate within the black communities. now sit back and watch what happens with all the illegal aliens becoming documented taking whatever miniscule jobs are left. You get what you vote for.
Harry Reid,Nancy Pelosi and all of those conspiritors deserve to be out on their ass. This country will not survive if we don't get a republican in the white house.But even if we get a republican in the white house we have got to hold their feet to fire and make sure they do what they promise and make America great again.
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