Illustration by Stephen Savage.
The Democrats lost the Presidency on Tuesday, and will continue to be the minority party in both the House and the Senate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the party is in permanent decline. Both major parties have repeatedly come back from major losses. They’ve done so by increasing turnout among the people who already supported them, and by making appeals to voters on the other side. This interactive lets you explore the second of these two pathways to political-coalition building.
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Published on November 14, 2016 15:05