Nancy Pelosi works to get back the gavel, a district at a time
Nancy Pelosi didn't take the loss of the House in 2010 as an excuse to stop fighting. In fact, she's been as energized as ever, working tirelessly to reclaim a Democratic majority in the House in 2012.
Since relinquishing the speaker’s gavel 18 months ago, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi hasn’t spent any time wallowing in the loss. Many thought she’d stoically step aside — as had her predecessors — after her party suffered historic loses. Instead, she has ricocheted across the country raising nearly $60 million in a frenetic effort to get that gavel back.
It's less frenetic than it is calculated. Don't think for a minute that Pelosi is not aware of each and every race in which Democrats have a chance at being competitive, at the seats redistricting has left potentially friendly for Democrats.
“Going to my home state of California—in our Drive for 25 in California and the president’s home state of Illinois and New York, Steve Israel’s state, and then in the state of Texas, which is not going to go Democratic for the president but we have opportunity there, in those four states, we can get half the votes we need to get to 25,” she says. “Then, you’ll go to my native state of Maryland, we’ll win one there.
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