"This is big," said Carville, a Pelicans season ticket holder along with his wife, and fellow political commentator, Mary Matalin. "It's good for the psyche of everybody."
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Still, Mr. Carville said Mr. Obama and the Democrats will face a much more favorable playing field in 2012, when a larger turnout will mean an electorate with more young voters, more minority voters and more unmarried voters than was true in the recent midterm vote — all constituencies that lean Democratic.
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