… With opinion divided over President Obama’s impact on both the nation’s economy and its security, the Democrats’ most potent weapon in the 2016 election remains the sense that they are more connected than the GOP to the nation’s evolving cultural and demographic dynamics. As last week’s GOP first- and second-tier debates demonstrated, the party’s presidential field is struggling to steer between a country that is rapidly reconfiguring itself, and a conservative base resistant to many of those changes. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, National Journal