voters will be held responsible for raising taxes on the middle-class people if they all go down you know next year. that is not the circumstances we face. let s talk real politics, mark penn and howard, you re both experts. there s on old phrase in politics, i learned it 40 years ago. dance with the one that brung you. the people that elect you, the ones you should stick with. do as much as you can for. the tricky part is you re not just elected by one faction. to win 51% or he won 53%, president obama, you have to hold your base which is 20%, 25%. then you have that group of people that are just democrats. they don t talk about hyphenated democrats. they re born that way. they are that way and then you have the reagan democrats who will only vote for you if you re a really good candidate or they happen to like you. how do you hold all three together? dance with all three that bring you. well ucan t always hold them all.