in english and spanish. that is recognizing the demographic problem. stylistic. everything they are trying to do is stylistic, but they needed to start somewhere. absolutely. we saw at the convention a lot of faces up on the stage that didn t look like the crowd in the audience. the party is is going to be accused of tokenism as long as it s not reflected in policies. it s a smart choice. he s an extremely skilled politician. four of the last five responders to president obama, jindal, donmcdonnell, rubio, pa ryan. sounds like the 2016 caucus. the thing about this generation of republicans, the ones in their 40s, they re not like the generation ahead of them. they re more in touch with minority voters, a lot of them are minorities well, they re trying to be. you say they re more in touch stylistically.
were women. so i think people should expect that that record will be built upon during the next four years. well, is the criticism fair against the president that s been thrown at him? falling short of his problem of being a champion for women. howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst. and huffington post has been facing obama. the road forward. and dee dee meyers. you were kind of a pioneers in all this. i watch this. and maybe there s tokenism. which is maybe better than nothing. you wonder about the decision how they made it to make it look good. what s better to make it look bad by not doing it or to look good when you don t intend to have that person in there? the best is to put people in with the best authority and do it right.
homeland security was woman. my two appointments to the supreme court were women. and 50% of my white house staff were women. so i think people should expect that that record will be built upon during the next four years. well, is the criticism fair against the president that s been thrown at him? falling short of his problem of being a champion for women. howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst. and huffington post has been facing obama. the road forward. and dee dee meyers. you were kind of a pioneeress in all this. i watch this. and maybe there s tokenism. which is maybe better than nothing.
my two appointments to the supreme court were women. and 50% of my white house staff were women. so i think people should expect that that record will be built upon during the next four years. well, is the criticism fair against the president that s been thrown at him? falling short of his problem of being a champion for women. howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst. and huffington post has been facing obama. the road forward. and dee dee meyers. you were kind of a pioneeress in all this. i watch this. and maybe there s tokenism. which is maybe better than nothing. you wonder about the decision how they made it to make it look good. what s better to make it look bad by not doing it or to look
that s got to be the poorest defense of tokenism i have ever heard, isn t it? what general powell said is right. the problem is this, the rest of the country is moving in a certain direction demographically in a way that makes it more possible than ever for a democrat to win a presidential race, makes it more possible than ever for democrats to start winning all of these statewide races and senate races. those same demographic changes, however, are not happening in the majority of house districts across the country. the coalition that elected president obama this year more than ever this democratic coalition is bunched into the metropolitan areas. the statistics that jumps out at me is this. in 1988 when michael dukakis got flattened in the presidential race he won over 800 counties nationally. this year getting re-elected by 5 million votes, barack obama won only 690 counties. the democrat vote is so tightly bunched into these areas, you have these wide swaths of district after dist