
Nate Silver @NateSilver538
@mattyglesias Worth noting that for cyclical reasons the left-of-center coalition was poised to be very large in ~2008 so Obama had an "all-of-the-above" coalition of 1) leftists 2) liberal centrists, and 3) working-class socially conservative Dems. But, those groups often don't get along. — PolitiTweet.org