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The Democratic Party is facing a demographic crisis

  • Written by Musa al-Gharbi, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology, Columbia University
imageWill voters of the future swing left or right?Cropped from joebeone/flickr, CC BY

In 2008, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama outperformed his predecessors John Kerry and Al Gore with virtually every single demographic group, handily defeating his Republican rival John McCain.

This success spread to down-ballot races as well. Democrats...

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