The Democrats banked on their 2008 coalition, and won big, bigger than
big. This wasn’t just a narrow survival by a weak incumbent president,
it was a nationwide blue wave, a sweep at every level, from the
president down to ballot initiatives like redefining marriage and
legalizing marijuana. You can’t blame Hurricane Sandy for that. The
unfortunate fact is that the millennial generation is the most secular
generation in American history, the most socially liberal. Will they be
shifting every election to the left from now on?
The Obama campaign — Axelrod, Plouffe, Cutter — look even smarter than they did four years ago, when they got a freshman senator elected president by 7 points over an experienced war hero. This time, they got President Benghazi, President ObamaCare, President Contraception Mandate reelected after a historic midterm loss. And they did it all without actually revealing a second-term agenda, or any evidence that their policies had done any good.