Camden's difficulty in governing itself was underscored recently when the City Council asked the state to assist in running the city attorney's office, which has been incapacitated by scandal.
And Mr. Clinton's perpetual campaign to raise his polls and popularity will doubtless be taken up by the next administration as well, given the difficulties Mr. Bush faces in governing with a bitterly divided Congress and a divided public.
Before the health care fight, before the economic stimulus package, before President Obama even took office, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader, had a strategy for his party: use his extensive knowledge of Senate procedure to slow things down, take advantage of the difficulties Democrats would have in governing and deny Democrats any Republican support on big legislation.
"He is expressing the difficulties and the challenges of using social media in an effective way in governing," Mr. Rasiej said in an interview.
Now he is in governing mode.
An incongruence in governing.
But while a majority appears to be in reach, Malcolm Turnbull has spent the week focused on locking in support from the new crossbench as he approaches the practical difficulties of governing in the new parliament at a time when internal tensions within the Coalition remain high.
In addition to the difficulties of governing increasingly large and diverse education systems, as well as those of meeting the never-ending demands of expanding education, the chronic lack of consensus rendered the system unable to respond satisfactorily to public criticism and unable to plan for substantive long-range development.
The maneuvering shows the difficulty of governing in a state where legislative power is split between Republicans and Democrats who represent different regions of the state.
