Other veteran Iowa Democrats attribute the lack of women elected to high office to circumstance: running in difficult years or in challenging races.
He is among the class of Democrats who face the challenge of running in difficult districts without the same enthusiasm and expected voter turnout that helped the party expand its Congressional majorities when Barack Obama led the ticket two years ago.
In any case, Mr. Clinton's speech on Wednesday night was seen as a template for Mr. Obama, an example of how to run in a difficult year.
It's more evidence, to me, that Mr. Kerry may have to run in the most difficult of all environments, and exactly the opposite of the one Democrats had hoped for: an environment where the U.S. economy is rebounding, and Iraq is reeling.
Mr. Rendell, in an interview before the polls closed, cautioned against drawing broad conclusions from the results, and said Mr. Specter and most incumbents were running in a difficult environment.
They're underfunded, not well-known, running in incredibly difficult districts and, largely, completely new to politics.
Running in wet, difficult conditions, Paradox took the lead in the closing stages and won from Duke of Richmond and the filly Aveline.
They hunt or scavenge, run in packs, and become difficult to manage and train.
I understand that people have lives, but we have a business to run in a very competitive, difficult economy.
HGPS doesn't run in families, making it extremely difficult to pinpoint the spontaneous mutation that causes it.
