From WSJopinion: The Democratic Party’s geographic concentration causes candidates to lose touch and become complacent, writes MichaelBarone
Potomac Watch: In its wake, identity politics leaves a trail of failed Democratic candidates. Image: Shannon Stapleton/ReutersThe Democrats lost to Donald Trump and may do it again. How did the world’s oldest political party, which has won four of the past seven presidential elections and received popular-vote pluralities in two more, find itself in this pickle?
One symptom of the party’s ailment is that its four top-polling presidential candidates in national surveys are in their 70s and No. 5 is a 38-year-old former mayor of a city of 102,000. Why haven’t others risen? Where are the candidates with demonstrated appeal to critical segments of the...
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