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This is a pretty bleak picture of the state of the Democrats from a journalist not usually hostile to them. Are they really in such bad shape?
Democrats' Race Back to the Future - Howard Fineman, Huffington Post
WASHINGTON – In 2008, the Democratic Party in the U.S. nominated one of its youngest candidates ever, and its first African-American. Everyone assumed that the choice of Barack Obama, 47, meant a new day and a new era.
But seven years later, the party’s 2016 contest is shaping up as a battle of aging white Baby Boomers for control of an ancient organization desperately in need of a fresh identity and a new wave of ideas, leaders and voters (though Hillary would be the first woman to win the nomination).
Democrats like to brag that they have been in continuous operation for two centuries, longer than any other major political party in the free world.
It certainly feels like it. . . .
Democrats' Race Back to the Future - Howard Fineman, Huffington Post
WASHINGTON – In 2008, the Democratic Party in the U.S. nominated one of its youngest candidates ever, and its first African-American. Everyone assumed that the choice of Barack Obama, 47, meant a new day and a new era.
But seven years later, the party’s 2016 contest is shaping up as a battle of aging white Baby Boomers for control of an ancient organization desperately in need of a fresh identity and a new wave of ideas, leaders and voters (though Hillary would be the first woman to win the nomination).
Democrats like to brag that they have been in continuous operation for two centuries, longer than any other major political party in the free world.
It certainly feels like it. . . .