This is her dilemma. A lot of the pressures of her constituency point to her taking a very aggressive position on withdrawing from Iraq. But her role as minority leader demands that she pick a position that does not damage the chances of Democrats in races around the country.

The $75,000 reference point is symptomatic of our business strategy. We are taking an aggressive stance. This is just the beginning of the Diamond family. As we identify additional cores, we will expand quickly.

If the urban constituency is going to be cutting into that pie more often and taking bigger slices, is seems like they should be contributing more.

We've still got a long way to go ... but I'm happy with my position at this point.

That's an aggressive team. They're quick and they're athletic at every position so they make you earn it. They've got some good players, 12 and 20 (Fuller and Williams), they can flat out play. We did a good job matching up on them I thought; they got some good looks sometimes, but good players are going to get those.

We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.