A spotter's guide to the Left's side of the political universe

Special interests have captured the elite level of the Democratic Party, leaving it, as Doug Schoen explained in Tuesday’s Examiner, to languish on life support — and facing structural challenges that are not often systematically analyzed.

The quick analysis is that special interests have set the agenda of the White House and Congress for the past two years, isolating the Democratic Party on the Left, abandoned by the center and the Right.