"As the Great Casey Stengel Might Have Put It: 'Can't Anyone Here Play This Game?'"

"The thread that runs through all these failures is the Democratic Left's adamant refusal to base its political approach on the actually-existing opinions and values of actually-existing American voters. Instead they entertain fantasies about kindling a prairie fire of progressive turnout with their approach, despite falling short again and again in the real world. It hasn't worked and it won't work."

Ruy Teixeira at The Liberal Patriot writes, "How much is the Democratic Left losing? Let us count the ways."

And Michael Schaffer at Politico reports on Teixeira leaving the Centger for American Progress for the American Enterprise Institute.