If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.
Mark ShieldsThe studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.
Mark ShieldsWhite working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.
Mark ShieldsThe Democrats have tried the war against women in the past. It didn't really have that much traction.
Mark ShieldsIt's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.
Mark ShieldsBarack Obama did get a higher percentage of the vote than anybody has in this country in 20 years. I mean, it was a resounding victory. I mean, whether his core constituency was 20 percent or what, his electoral constituency, which is how we measure elections, was 53 percent, which was, you know, historically high, the highest of any Democrat, other than Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.
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