Drew Westen: Why the Democrats Are Losing Ground As Obama Is Gaining It

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Drew Westen: Why the Democrats Are Losing Ground As Obama Is Gaining It

Drew Westen: While the president is off being the leader of the free world and trying to restore prosperity at home, someone needs to manage the blind trust of the Democratic Party before its assets dwindle like shares of Citigroup. President Obama's approval ratings have continued to break records, and with good reason. All of this has happened as Republicans have seemed increasingly impotent, ideologically inflexible, and oppositional, none of which endears them to anyone but the 30% who still think Bush was a great president. Yet at the same time, something else is happening under the radar: the fortunes of Democrats more generally are starting to wane. Click here to read more.