In 2008, Barack Obama won the largest share of the electorate of any Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Democrats added seats in the House and knocked off five Republican incumbents in the Senate on their way to achieving a fifty-seven-seat majority. Two years later, the Democrats endured a crushing defeat at the hands of a “Tea Party” insurgenc (...)
February 08, 2013
Books
Wedged Apart
What’s the Matter with White People?Joan WalshWiley, $25.95, 288 pp.
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