… Tuesday’s resounding Republican sweep closely followed the script of the GOP’s landslide in 2010, and it exposed perhaps even more deeply the limits of the modern Democratic coalition—while underscoring the party’s persistent inability to convince enough whites that they will benefit from activist government.
But just as President Obama recovered from his party’s 2010 rout to comfortably win reelection two years later, some cautionary 2016 signs for Republicans are buried within the rubble of this week’s Democratic disaster. CONT.
Ron Brownstein, National Journal