It's not just Democrats who need the Democratic Party to remember how to win elections. Democracy does.

Spencer's guest this time has some great ideas on where to start, based on his unique, decades-long experience studying politics from the inside and out.

Walter Shapiro has reported on 11 presidential campaigns, going back to Ronald Reagan’s landslide defeat of Jimmy Carter in 1980. He’s written for the Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, USA Today, Roll Call, and The New Republic among others, worked for President Carter, and teaches at Yale.