One of the reasons for the loss of the white house by Democrats in 1952 was the Communist takeover of China in 1949. We can agree that "Losing China" was a nasty racist campaign based on the assumption that we owned China prior to 1949 - but it worked.
Domestically, I don't see us losing the congress, senate or white house - but internationally we are in danger.
We are now on the verge of FOUR plausible `Losing China' scenarios.
1. The first is "Losing TO china" scenario: North Korea human rights report
not leading to immediate serious action will make us lose our supposed good-guy stance, something Obama has started to rectify. Don't underestimate this!
America is still the country that eventually comes through, EXCEPT for the Iraq debacle and Vietnam. This recent proof of a Nazi-like regime that no one does anything about will make Obama look as bad as Bush - something the Republicans will exploit.
2. A possible descent into chaos in the Ukraine, something Putin may leverage to indirectly take over this and other former Soviet Union republics. Imagine Ukraine becoming another Belarus.
3. Another Syrian chemical attack. Imagine the embarassment
4. The collapse of the Iran nuclear agreement.
What must be done is a diplomatic attack in all of these arenas right after the Sochi winter Olympics - but I haven't seen Kerry do that so far. Is he too nice a guy? He is not standing up to the bullies as well as Hillary did. It is time for him to assert American power the way Hillary did in Libya and Egypt.
Otherwise, this could be our Achilles Hill.