To those of us who made our bones in the Democratic politics of the 1980s and the 1990s, the arguments between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton about the future of the Democratic Party and the mechanics of winning general elections sound familiar, with one camp obsessed with white swing voters, independents, and general-election polls and the other focused on maintaining and nourishing a party base resting on the votes and interests of minorities. CONT.
Ed Kilgore, nymag.com