What's the Politics Strategy in Washington?

The women's health protection act failed as expected, but democrat say the vote is about mobilizing voters, not passing legislation. Republicans used a fillibuster to thwart the bill; democrats hoped a high profile failure of their legislation would help them at the poles in november. Do you think tht was the right move once again? i think there is a very loud, very aggressive, very vitative online debate of limited consequence," he said.