we re talking about the growing obama coalition of voters and problems facing the republican party trying to compete with the changing elect rat. here with baratuned thurston, michelle goldberg, and josh barro. i want to run through this counterfactual. the white house had an opportunity when that case was filed in court. i believe in 2011. they had defended the law, doma, previously on another case in massachusetts. and they had a decision to face. do you defend the law or do you not? it is a very, very big deal for the executive, for the department of justice not to defend a statute that is good federal law. it does not happen that often. it s a big deal when they do. the choice they made not to defend it, if you rerun the history of yesterday in which they defend that law not only does yesterday look different, yesterday was an unequivocal victory for barack obama, the democratic party. they were able to tweet celebration. he was able to comment. nothing tainted about it. not only d
republican party trying to compete with the changing electorate. here with baratuned thurston, michelle goldberg, and josh barro. i want to run through this counterfactual. the white house had an opportunity when that case was filed in court. i believe in 2011. they had defended the law, doma, previously on another case in massachusetts. and they had a decision to face. do you defend the law or do you not? it is a very, very big deal for the executive, for the department of justice not to defend a statute that is good federal law. it does not happen that often. it s a big deal when they do. the choice they made not to defend it, if you rerun the history of yesterday in which they defend that law not only does yesterday look different, yesterday was an unequivocal victory for barack obama, the democratic party. they were able to tweet celebration. he was able to comment. nothing tainted about it. not only does that go out the window, but the president coming out for marriage equality du
growing obama coalition of voters and problems facing the republican party trying to compete with the changing elect rat. here with baratuned thurston, michelle goldberg, and josh barro. i want to run through this counterfactual. the white house had an opportunity when that case was filed in court. i believe in 2011. they had defended the law, doma, previously on another case in massachusetts. and they had a decision to face. do you defend the law or do you not? it is a very, very big deal for the executive, for the department of justice not to defend a statute that is good federal law. it does not happen that often. it s a big deal when they do. the choice they made not to defend it, if you rerun the history of yesterday in which they defend that law not only does yesterday look different, yesterday was an unequivocal victory for barack obama, the democratic party. they were able to tweet celebration. he was able to comment. nothing tainted about it. not only does that go out the wind