but if you're milling about in the crowd, it's almost like you're not identified as a democrat or republican. and that's kind of cool, considering it's washington. come on, the epicenter of partisanship these days. >> i think that's true. i think people around the country imagine this is a city of adversarial obsessives. >> right? >> but there is a sense that everybody necessary in the same game, they're interested in the same process and for that night they can all be together. in our "washington post" piece today, david axelrod actually describes it as a sort of one-night stand and roger aos called it a fling. it has that kind of intimacy. but the next day, we know monday will have the same rhetoric and we're going to see the same kind of conflicts. >> david axelrod did a great job. i wonder if he wrote the one about himself eating dunkin' donuts with the president. a pretty good sport if he did. >> he didn't seem to have a lot of regrets about it. david axelrod was at the "newsweek" party last night hanging out with republican