Why haven't others risen? Where are the candidates with demonstrated appeal to critical segments of the electorate? One answer is that over the past decade the Democrats have had a tough time electing candidates beyond heavily Democratic constituencies.
The decision to enact ObamaCare in 2010 despite its obvious unpopularity-forced through by Speaker Nancy Pelosi over President Obama's doubts-not only cost Democrats the House but helped prevent the election of Democratic senators and governors in marginal states and produced Republican legislative majorities that dominated redistricting after the 2010 census.
The Democratic Party has always been a coalition of out-groups.
Today, with its four top contenders from the heavily Democratic Northeast-Delaware, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York-it has a similar problem.
Democratic strategists-especially whoever advised Hillary Clinton to attack voters as "Deplorables"-seem to have assumed that noncollege whites in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa would continue to vote as heavily Democratic as they had between 1992 and 2012.
21st-century Democratic presidential candidates have raised and spent more money than Republicans and have run even with or ahead of them among the highest-income voters.
All this tends to heighten the geographic overconcentration of Democratic votes in central cities, university towns and some suburbs.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-democratic-majority-hasnt-emerged-11580673938?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
The decision to enact ObamaCare in 2010 despite its obvious unpopularity-forced through by Speaker Nancy Pelosi over President Obama's doubts-not only cost Democrats the House but helped prevent the election of Democratic senators and governors in marginal states and produced Republican legislative majorities that dominated redistricting after the 2010 census.
The Democratic Party has always been a coalition of out-groups.
Today, with its four top contenders from the heavily Democratic Northeast-Delaware, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York-it has a similar problem.
Democratic strategists-especially whoever advised Hillary Clinton to attack voters as "Deplorables"-seem to have assumed that noncollege whites in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa would continue to vote as heavily Democratic as they had between 1992 and 2012.
21st-century Democratic presidential candidates have raised and spent more money than Republicans and have run even with or ahead of them among the highest-income voters.
All this tends to heighten the geographic overconcentration of Democratic votes in central cities, university towns and some suburbs.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-democratic-majority-hasnt-emerged-11580673938?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
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