policy innovations that developed during the early 1980s that democratic governors of less liberal states had to sort of figure out how to be more pragmatic to make things work. one of the problems we have now with general polarization is that you have a lot of republican congressional candidates, even governors, coming up in states where they're not responsive to a moderate jurisdiction. you know, it's true that there are figures like -- i think rubio is actually not -- is actually a really interesting figure, but there's also figures like chris christie. you have some republicans that are in states that -- >> jeb bush. >> right. on the whole the party is being pushed by pure demographics and pure districting into a particular corner that's going to be harder for it to get out of than the clinton era democratic -- >> the narrative was so well established in 2012, right? the president ran on this message. the republicans had no sort of emotional response to what the -- a very emotional argument that the president was making. it was just cut taxes for the