Nancy Pelosi
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We'll see what happens in Maryland.
But even without that, we're ahead by enough to win the House.
from redistricting.
The other part of it is, though, that in 2006, well, 2005, a year before, Harry Reid and I were new leaders.
We had new rules.
We had a new building.
We had new leaders.
And we had just lost the presidential election in 2004.
President Bush was at 58% in January of 2005 in the polls, 58%.
So we knew that we could not win if he's at 58%, so we had to make the distinction.
So when you talk about the election, one of the things they say is, how are you going to present the Democrats?
How are you going to freshly brand the Democrats?
Do what we did then, except in a new era of technology.
It's all different now in terms of communication and the rest.
And what we did then...
We won the House.
Two new leaders.
We won the House.
And it was the first time the Democrats had won since 1992 because we let the members define who they were.
And that's what we are doing now.