David Shor, a Democratic polling and data expert who worked on the Obama campaign, told Politico, “We have an election system that makes it basically impossible for Democrats’ current coalition to ever wield legislative power…We are legitimately in a position from here on out where [Democrats] would need to get 54 percent of the popular vote—which we did not even accomplish this time—for multiple cycles in a row, for us to be in a position to really pass laws.”
