Nate Cohn

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

This is a hard implication for people to internalize or take seriously, since it's really not how most people think about politics! Most people do want their president to do their agenda. They don't flip between parties based on the economy, or something — PolitiTweet.org

Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn

And yet that's how the electorate behaves as a whole. A crucial segment of voters just isn't sufficiently demanding of an ideological policy objectives for an ambitious legislative agenda to do a president much good, and those same voters respond to the economy/natl environment — PolitiTweet.org