Sunday, August 8, 2010

The importance of geographically broad support...

Over at RealClearPolitics, Jay Cost has a really interesting analysis about the political difficulties that President Obama has faced in enacting his agenda (and why he is no FDR, for example).

It challenges the view that Obama didn't go "Liberal" enough, and suggests that the geographically narrow nature of Obama's support is the reason why he's facing such difficulty.

As an aside, I'm a big fan of Cost's. He's extremely smart and articulate. And he once took the time to write me several emails of advice on where to attend graduate school.

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