Contra a lot of post-election assessments, Joel Benenson, President Obama’s chief pollster in 2012 and 2008, argues in a New York Times op-ed Thursday that it wasn’t demographics but values that helped re-elect Obama on Tuesday. “The president’s victory was a triumph of vision, not of demographics,” Benenson writes. “He won because he articulated a set of values that define an America that the majority of us wish to live in.”
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