Democrats like to think they are the party of the future. The reality is starkly different. The New York Post,
GOP candidates were generally younger, more vigorous, more sunny and optimistic than Democrats… Democrats see themselves as the party of the future. But their policies are antique… Democratic leading lights have been around a long time. The party’s two congressional leaders are in their 70s. The governors of the two largest Democratic states are sons of former governors who won their first statewide elections in 1950 and 1978…
Democratic territory has been reduced to the bastions of two core groups — black voters and gentry liberals. Democrats win New York City and the San Francisco Bay area by overwhelming margins, but are outvoted in almost all the territory in between — including, this year, Obama’s Illinois…
Democratic margins have shrunk among Hispanics and, almost to the vanishing point, among young voters.
Under Obama, the Democratic base has shrunk numerically and demographically. With superior organization, he was able to stitch together a 51 percent majority in 2012.
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