Often leaders are fantastic on getting people on their side, mobilizing grand coalitions, and then they drop the ball. Last night after the elections, there were numerous discussions as to what happened to the Obama coalition–is it around, is it dissipated? If the Obama coalition was still around, what happened to the independent voters?  Why did the vote go disproportionately Republican when a year ago independents voted disproportionally Democrat?
The Obama administration seems to be in …