Can the Clinton Coalition Survive Obama? – (Uplifting)
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira's well-regarded 2002 work The Emerging Democratic Majority begins with a vignette set in Virginia. They tell the story of a telecom executive named Mark Warner, who runs a moderate campaign that appeals to upper-middle class suburbanites and working class rural voters, and manages to put together a winning coalition that, if imitated in other states, might put the Democrats in power for decades to come. Democrats did build coalitions similar to Warner’s, and in fact had been doing so for the better part of a decade. Warner’s coalition was essentially Bill Clinton’s 1996 coalition. The...
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Tags: Bill Clinton, Decade, Decades, Democrats, Emerging Democratic Majority, John Judis, Mark Warner, Ruy Teixeira, Suburbanites, Telecom Executive, Upper Middle Class, Vignette, X27, X92