Could Someone Like John Edwards Have Saved the Democrats?

Real Clear Politics ^ | January 29, 2017 | David Byler

[2ndDivisionVet]

What happened to President Obama’s majority?

The surface-level answer to this question is simple. Donald Trump won over a supermajority of white working-class voters while holding on to many traditional Republicans, allowing him to win the Electoral College. At the same time, down-ballot Republicans built on their solid showings in 2010 and 2014, which helped them retain control of Congress and significant power in the states.

But there’s a deeper dimension to this question. For the past eight years, election wonks have been arguing about whether Democrats have an unassailable majority in presidential politics. The theory was straightforward: As the electorate becomes more racially diverse and educated, the Democratic base would grow and the party would build an invincible majority. The theory wasn’t just Democratic wishful thinking. Many good analysts from across the political spectrum bought into it at the time. So the question isn’t just why Democrats lost, but how such a widely respected theory went so wrong.

One way to tackle this question is to trace these arguments back to their source – a 2002 book called “The Emerging Democratic Majority” by John Judis and Ruy Teixeira. That work argued that Democrats could weld together a durable, winning coalition of minorities, professionals, working women and white working-class voters by championing a socially and fiscally liberal set of policies called “progressive centrism.” Many wonks read this book, saw the elections results in 2006, 2008 and 2012 and concluded that a durable Democratic majority had indeed arrived....

[scrabblehack]

Basic had ** to indicate exponents (10**2 = 100).
Many programming languages use ^ (10^2 = 100).
I think Matlab has pow(10,2) = 100.

[Newtoidaho]

Cheating on your dying wife with a campaign slut is one of those cherished demonrat family values, just like baby killing!

[definitelynotaliberal]

I love it!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They don't understand that you can not win people's support by insulting them and their morals.

Even slave masters are careful not to interfere with their slave religious beliefs and practices.

"Three things do slaves require; work, food and their gods and of the three their gods must not be touched or else they become troublesome."

All I can do is thank the Good Lord that as He made blind eyes to see, in the case of democrats He made seeing eyes blind.