Where Have All the Democrats Gone?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Paul Gigot interviews political scientist Ruy Teixeira on why Democrats have been losing working-class voters and what they can do about it as the U.S. enters a polarizing presidential election year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:38.0	With the 2024 Iowa Caucasus less than a month away. The presidential campaign season is in high gear and Democrats are worried
0:47.8	Joe Biden has an approval rating that is downright dreadful down close to 40 percent in an head-to-head polling he
0:55.0	loses to Donald Trump and loses by even more to Nicky Haley. Roy
0:58.2	Sheriff says this is explained at least in part by a deterioration of the Democratic Party's
1:06.1	winning coalition from 2020.
1:08.9	Mr. Joshara is a political scientist affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute and author with John Judas of the new book
1:16.2	Where have all the Democrats gone the soul of the party in the age of extremes?
1:21.3	Welcome back to Potomac Watch, Roy, nice to have you here.
1:25.2	Okay, thanks for having me, Paul.
1:26.5	All right, so you and John Judas wrote a very different book, a decade and a half or so ago,
1:30.9	called The Emerging Democratic majority. That majority appeared
1:34.6	to be dawning under Barack Obama with his victory in 2008 in particular and then
1:39.7	2012 but it has since gone away.
1:43.0	What happened?
1:44.0	Well, the main thing that happened, I think, and this is something we highlighted in our original
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