The Democrats have done so poorly in red states and essentially been evacuated from the red - the entire red part of America particularly off year elections. But I guess they proved that all you need is a completely scandalized Republican opponent.

Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the first time in a long time made the Catholics sort of on the side of liberalism.

There is a sort of Neo-Confederate thread that runs through these sort of pro-gun movements and the NRA movement.

I think that Rahm Emanuel`s political career is going to be very difficult to revive after the mismanagement.

There has been a fair amount of criticism of the DNC for letting this squabble between [Bernie] Sanders and [Hillary] Clinton campaigns spill out into the open.

Donald Trump is accomplishing getting, particularly white, working-class voters, who are turned off by their own party.

Pope Francis also I think was really pivotal in sort of sanctioning and giving that important cosign to the opening of Cuba.