How Democrats Win

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How Democrats Win
Rick Perlstein points out a lesson in his book Nixonland -- which President Obama recently read, according to Joe Klein -- "about how the Democratic Party wins, why it loses and the good things that happen when the party gets the formula right."

"It concerns the two major axes upon which major national elections get fought. Sometimes they become battles over the cultural and social anxieties ordinary Americans suffer. Other times they are showdowns about middle-class anxieties when the free market fails. Normally, in the former sort of election, Republicans win. In the latter, Democrats do -- as we saw in 2008, when the tide turned after John McCain said that 'the fundamentals of the economy are strong.'"

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