Race to the White House

Ron Brownstein Gives Shout Out to Simon on MSNBC's "Race to the White House"

Atlantic Media's Ron Brownstein, one of Washington's smartest reporters, talked to David Gregory earlier today on MSNBC's "Race to the White House." Gregory talked to Brownstein about U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's efforts to target African-Americans, Latinos and others in the race and whether Obama's failure to poll higher among working class, white voters might hurt a President Obama seeking a sustainable majority/coalition.

Brownstein gave a great response and noted that as Simon Rosenberg from NDN argues, with Hispanics and Millennials the fastest growing demographics in the nation, and with those groups supporting Obama by huge margins, the working class white demographic -- while still important -- no longer holds the mythical sway is once held.

Brownstein said it much more articulately, so watch it here:

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