Obama, the Democratic disaster

Published November 9, 2016 7:35am ET



Barack Obama was extremely skilled — unparalleled, perhaps — at getting voters to vote for him.

It turns out he utterly lacked the secondary political skills: rallying voters behind his policy plans, persuading lawmakers and helping his party win when he’s not on the ballot.

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