Byron York: “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.”
Charlie Cook: Democrats paved the way for their own decline
[speech_bubble type=”std” subtype=”a” icon=”pwdome.jpg” name=””]It’s not a foregone conclusion that another Democratic presidential candidate can pull together the Obama coalition in 2016. [/speech_bubble]
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