lobby pledging to continue the fight. this does not end. cannot end. because there are people that are counting on this. and we cannot let them down. and in houston, a controversial local nondiscrimination ordinance that would have established protections for gay and transgender people failed by a wide margin. conservative opponents framed the issue as allowing men dressed as women to enter female rest rooms. since president obama was elected, democrats have lost 14 senate seats and 69 house seats. democrats have also lost a net 12 governorships and 910 state legislature seats. in that respect, republicans can view the obama era as being good for them. another landmark gender issue is playing out in suburban chicago. where school district officials are digging in, their figurative heels over their compromise in the issue of locker room access. chief legal correspondent
states and blue states, but the united states of america. and what we have not seen him yet is to bring us together and end the polarization. and the discourse and the thing is that the president cannot end and that is the point that it is not just one side, but the president, himself, cannot end polarization, or you will get the murdoch problem of the president coming to do what the republicans want, but even then, and even to the extent that the president s health care reform bill that passed the congress and the senate was something that was basically proposed by republicans two decades ago and it is now being called socialism. it does feel like meanness, but like an act of misrepresentation of the realities of the policy. and not misrepresentation, but i keep coming back to the fact that you have now people on capitol hill who are there either resistant to facts or come to the table with their own facts. i remember something that chuck todd said in the height of the debt ceil