and what president obama is trying to do now. outside game, go find support, then play the inside game. that seems to be what the white house strategy is. didn t work for you guys and looking back, what advice would you give to president obama, lessons learned? well, it didn t work for george w. bush, in part, because he didn t have his own party aligned on south carolina. so i think the president does have his party aligned on many of his agendas. so that one advantage that he has. it has one advantage. i think, though, he is a very ambitious agenda for this next year. he would be wise to focus on something that can get done. and that s immigration reform. and so, he s focused on minimum wage, he s focusing on these manufacturing zones, popular, popular with his base. but popular overall, so they re going to poll really well. they re going to poll really well, but at the end of the day, is the minimum wage really going to get increased? probably not. but what could get done,