Will Barack Obama be remembered as the Democrats' Nixon?

[Peter the Lefty]

Sanders will be 79 in 2020, just throwing that out there.  Unfortunately, I think he might be a bit like the Goldwater of this analogy, except that he'll most likely never be a nominee.  I think the Democratic Reagan will be someone like Warren or hopefully maybe Baldwin, though the latter might be a tad bit far-fetched for 2020.

[Peter the Lefty]

Interesting Daily Kos article on this analogy.  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/06/1176482/-Lives-of-the-party-Looking-past-Obama-for-a-progressive-Democratic-coalition

[Peter the Lefty]

The only thing that complicates this a bit is Hillary, though I could actually see her loosing to Christie. 
Possible Democratic Reagans:
Elizabeth Warren
Tammy Baldwin
Kyrsten Sinema
Van Jones (maybe when Pelosi retires he can run for her seat)
Ben Lujan

Boy, I can't wait for 2020

[Peter the Lefty]

Oh boy, that'd also be great.  I wish we could de-age Bernie Sanders 10 or 15 years.  But Feingold would also be awesome, as would any of those others.