Still, Democrats are not immune to the problem of governing purple states.
Having fulfilled their vows of pilgrimage, most of the Crusaders departed for home, leaving the problem of governing the conquered territories to the few who remained.
He was writing to Rudyard Kipling about the problem of governing "dark-hued" peoples, but he might as well have been writing about his own psyche.
The increasing fragmentation of the country's system of political parties added to the problem of governing, as the number of parties represented in Congress jumped from 22 to 28.
In the forty years that followed the Union, successive British governments grappled with the problems of governing a country which had, as Benjamin Disraeli put it in 1844, "a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world".
In one aspect, Austerity Britain is a very funny account of the problems of governing anybody at all.
Discussing his Presidency, he analyzes the problems of governing in a country simultaneously riding a democratic revolution and the transformations brought about by the new wave of globalization.
David Mack, the vice president of the institute and a former senior State Department official, was asked to develop a proposal for a conference that would grapple with the problems of governing Iraq if Mr. Hussein were removed from power.
SINCE civilian rule was restored to Guatemala in 1986, the problems of governing a poor and violent country of 13m people have proved so great that no party has succeeded in winning more than one term in the presidency.
One of his simplest but most compelling points was that for all its power as a mobilising slogan, Islam just does not provide the answers to the problems of governing a modern state.
By contrast, Labour has seemed preoccupied with the problems of governing, while its attempts to appear energetic and brimming with fresh ideas have so far fallen flat.And although it is painful to say so, there are signs that Mr Howard's cynical determination to put immigration at the centre of the campaign is also working better for him than it did for William Hague in 2001.
