Friday, September 12, 2014

Obama Loses Women, Others

Karen Tumulty writes on politics for The Washington Post. Today she reports Obama has lost support among women, the young, and Hispanics, groups that supported him strongly in 2008 and 2012.

Nobody is certain how this will affect the results of the election less than 8 weeks from now. The conventional wisdom of politics says a midterm election is a referendum on the sitting President. Democrats obviously hope this year is an exception to the rule.