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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) One of Hillary Clintons former pollsters believes shes lost the new car smell she might need to win the White House.

Doug Schoen, a Democratic pollster who worked on Clintons 2008 presidential campaign, made the comments to radio host John Catsimatidis. President Barack Obama said that the next president needsa new car smell, and its pretty hard for me to saythat she [Clinton] has a new car smell, Schoen said in an interview. Schoen, now a Fox News contributor, said he expects Clinton to run for president, but that she will face challenges having served in the Obama administration as secretary of state. The Hill has more on the interview.

Keeping government going: Lawmakers returning to Capitol Hill on Monday have fewer than two weeks to figure out how to keep the government funded amid an acrimonious fight between Republicans and the White House over immigration. As The Wall Street Journal reports, government funding is set to expire Dec. 11, and top Democrats and Republicans had hoped to pass a so-called omnibus measure that would tie together spending bills to fund the government through September 2015. Now, GOP leaders are discussing the idea of passing a bill keeping all of the government funded through September, except for the Department of Homeland Security, which would be extended through March. Homeland Security contains the agency responsible for implementing most of the presidents executive action on immigration.

How to block regulations: Republicans are preparing to mount a full-scale assault on President Obamas regulatory agenda. As the Hill reports, critics of Obamas regulatory policies are likely to look to the Congressional Review Act, which allows lawmakers to disapprove of regulations that have been finalized and stop them from going into effect. But it wont be easy. The CRA has only been used successfully once before, to overturn a Labor Department rule on ergonomics in 2001.

Ferguson on the agenda: President Obama will meet Monday with Cabinet members and civil rights leaders on issues related to Ferguson, Mo., where a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black teenager. As Reuters reports, the meeting will include a discussion of a review Obama ordered in August of federal programs that provide equipment to local law-enforcement agencies.

Slow start: One year after the White House temporarily shelved an unfinished part of HealthCare.gov intended for small businesses, it has opened with reports of only modest technical flaws. But the Washington Post reports there are doubts it will soon benefit the millions of workers at small companies with inadequate health insurance or none at all. The Post said interviews with brokers and others suggest that in the two weeks since the marketplaces health plans went on sale for 2015, interest within the niche they are intended to help seems scant.

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Capitol Report: Hillary Clinton lacks new car smell, says ex-pollster

Democrats won a measly 34 percent of the group in 2014. They'll have to do better if they want to win in 2016.

Reuters

Hillary Clinton's support of deferred deportation of millions of undocumented workers might help the Democratic Party's putative presidential nominee win over Latinos in 2016. But among the voters most responsible for the Democrats' midterm wipeout this year, it could very well make things worseand therein lies Clinton's dilemma.

Support for Democrats among white, working-class voters was especially sparse this year: A measly 34 percent of them backed Democratic House candidates, exit polls found, while they fled in almost equal measure from Senate candidates like Bruce Braley in Iowa and incumbent Mark Udall in Colorado. Democrats still performed relatively well among black and Hispanic voters, but the deficit among whites without a college degreewho constituted more than one-third of the nationwide electoratewas too much to overcome.

One of the central challenges facing a Clinton campaign will be managing to win back enough of those voters, especially in a working-class-heavy battleground like Iowa. But as her quick support of deferred deportations shows, she'll have to do so while also motivating black, young, and Latino voters who formed the core of President Obama's coalition in 2008 and 2012.

At times, the two imperatives will work against each other.

"Democrats, to win regularly, not just the presidency but other levels of government, they need to do better among ... noncollege whites than they've been doing," said Ruy Teixeira, a demographer who has written extensively about the electoral advantages inherent in the nation's changing demographics. "You can't ... just rely on the coalition of the ascendant."

Once the backbone of the Democratic Party, working-class white voters have gradually shifted into the GOP's camp since the 1970s in part because of the alienation they felt toward an increasingly urban, culturally cosmopolitan party. Democrats, meanwhile, have made up for the loss by winning over minorities and a greater share of the upscale white vote.

Clinton doesn't have to win a majority of white voters without a college educationObama never did, after all. Even during the height of his 2008 campaign, he won just 40 percent of them. Four years later, his share slipped to 36 percent.

But in 2014, the bottom fell out, and it fell out in places where Democrats have performed relatively well with working-class white voters, even recently. The party didn't just lose the white, working-class vote in places like Arkansas and West Virginia, where it has long since stopped being competitive at a presidential level. It also lost the vote in Iowa.

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