Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to the president, in an interview a few days after the elections:
“I think politically, we, the Democratic Party writ large, have to do some real analysis about the fact that what many people think is the emerging democratic electorate has now only shown up twice and only shown up for Barack Obama,” “What does that mean in a post-Obama era? The technology and the field organization is very important. But organization is a mechanism to harness enthusiasm. And if you don’t have enthusiasm, all the organization in the world is not going to get you over the top.”
*“All politics is local” was used by Washington AP bureau chief Byron Price in 1932. Tip O’Neill first used the term in 1935, when he entered politics. readmore