The Democratic Party’s standing in public opinion polls has sunk to its lowest point in more than 30 years. Advertisement“There’s no requirement that people love the Democratic Party in order to vote for it,” Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini said last week. “The Democratic Party’s present looks pretty bad, but I think its future looks pretty good,” he said. “The talent level in the current Democratic Party is the highest I’ve ever seen,” he said. In a historical sense, the party is going through a familiar ordeal: the struggle a party normally faces after losing an election.