her book, "dilemmas of representation," explores how local poll tibs are a-- politics are affected by national factors. >> so the title of my book is "dilemmas of representation," and it's about a couple of things. the first thing is that it's about dilemmas of representation. i really wanted to show -- i was really interested in representation, and i wanted to show that when members of congress, quote, represent their districts, that representation can really mean a lot of different things to different congress people. it's not one size fits all, and i really wanted to show the choices members of congress or were making, and i really wanted the reader to think about so of all those choices, what, what style of representation does the reader think is best? that's one of the advantages of profiling ten members of congress. they were only ten members of congress, but you really could get an in-depth picture in terms of the local national distinction, which i wrote down in a lot of different ways. so, you know, it's not as simple as that, but we found, a, that local politics still matter