2012. This is the daly rundown. Im chuck todd. Lets get first to my first reads. President obama wanted to spend his first post Election Press conference showing he was ready to reach across the aisle. Instead, he found himself on the receiving end of criticisms from not one, but two former president ial rivals. The president himself was loose, confident and at times aggressive trying to show hes in charge of these budget investigations. Also to appear magazine 1 2 muss. Magnanimous. He pledged to sit down with his rival governor romney. There are certain aspects of governor romneys ideas that i think could be very helpful. While the president was paying mitt romney compliments, mitt romney was telling donors on a Conference Call a different story. Blaming his defeat on a financial what he called them, gifts. What the president has given to supporter, including africanamericans, hispanics, saying the president followed, quote, the old playbook. Heres more from romney. With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of the college Loan Interest was a big gift. Adding free contra are september tiffs were very big with young collegeaged women. And as for hispanic voters, romney said Free Health Care was a big plus. Incoming chairman, louisiana governor bobby jindal, he slammed romneys comments. I absolutely reject that motion. That description. I think thats absolutely wrong. That is not i dont think that represents where we are as a party, and where were going as a party. Later, jindal said this to reporters. Weve got to stop dividing the american voters. We need to go after 100 of the votes, not 53 . Romneys supporter alfonzo algolar just on the program yesterday. Saying he lost the election by making comments like that latinos. Apparently governor romney doesnt understand why he lost. It was an odd thing for the way romney worded that. Perhaps he didnt know people would be listening in on that. It does come across as bitter. And its oddly laughable blaming voters for the president claiming the president delivered for them, as opposed to what mitt romney was saying. An odd decision. Watch the 2016ers, by the way, like bobby jindal, watch them pile on romney. This is a softball for them, as they try to distinguish themselves as a new leader of the republican party. Another formidable opponent, senator john mccain, hes becoming prepare ared for what could be a highprofile nomination fight. Mccain and Lindsey Graham said he will not support the nomination of ambassador rice if shes nominate. We will do what we can do block the nomination. I dont trust her. I thought she should know better. If she didnt snow better, she shouldnt be the voice of america. Their chief complaint is they disqualified herself several days after the benghazi on a slew of shows, including meet the press. Our Current Assessment is what happened in benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction of what had transpired hours before in cairo. Almost a copycat of the demonstrations at our facility in cairo. At his news conference, a visibly angry obama fired back. If senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. But for them to go after the u. N. Ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received, and to besmirch her representation is outrageous. Well, mccain didnt want to have the president to have the last word. And he raced to the senate floor to then respond to the president. This president and this administration has either been guilty of colossal incompetence, or engaged in a coverup. If the president thinks that we are picking on people, he really does not have any idea of how serious this issue is. Were not picking on anybody. Well, on today show this morning, mccain was challenged on how ambassador susan rices situation is somehow different from another rice. Mccain supported, despite intelligence failures in bad intelligence that then Condoleezza Rice was selling to the american public. Heres what he said. You said opponents of Condoleezza Rice were expressing sour grapes after an election loss. Why is this different . Because every Intelligence Agency in the world, including the british, believed that iraq had weapons of mass destruction. That was an entirely different situation. Four americans died that didnt have to die. At that time, when susan rice was given that intelligence, that was the official intelligence assessment of everybody. The cia, department of national intelligence, that was all the same intelligence briefing. Everybody was getting at that time. By the way, the president is a pragmatist, and hes usually someone who likes to avoid confirmation fights for his appointees. But the more the gop attacked susan rice, the more dugin the white house could get. And all of a sudden what i thought two days ago was more likely a nomination to go to john kerry. Dont be surpriseded now, the president basically says, fine, to Senate Republicans, lets have this confirmation battle. The president s main goal, of course, at the press conference was to make the case that the public fully supports his view on the deficit reduction. And that means tax hikes on the rich as part of that solution. I think every voter out there understood that that was an important debate. And the majority of voters greed with me. Not by the way, more voters greed with me on this issue than voted for me. Hes referring to that exit poll number that we showed you yesterday on taxes. Now, although the president drew a line in the sand making it clear that the bush era tax rates for the top 2 will go away, he left wiggle room on how high those rates could get and how those new tax revenues will be configured, explicitly not ruling out a compromise that could leave the top tax rates lower than they were during the clinton years. Im open to compromise. And im open to new ideas. What im not going to do is to extend further a tax cut for folks who dont need, which would cost close to 1 trillion. Folks, the news here isnt just what obama said. Its also what republicans heard. That there is a possibility for a deal on where the top rates eventually could end up. Is it at 250 by the way . Is it 1 million . Is it at 37 . At 39 . The president s chief negotiating adversary right now, Speaker John Boehner who was reelected by House Republicans yesterday said theyre not ready to accept the president s proposal because it would, quote, hurt our economy and make jobs more difficult. But he also sounded the kumbaya theme. Now, i do think that the spirit of cooperation that youve seen over the last week, from myself and my team. From democrats across the aisle. From the president. Have created an atmosphere where i think that, i remain optimistic. Folks, there are a lot closer than sometime the bravadoish headlines seem to make clear. This is really about what can boehner take to 50 to 100 House Republicans who are willing to temporarily potentially raise some tax rates on some group of wealthier americans . By the way, after 6 billion spent on house senate and president ial campaign, not only did Party Control not change for the house, senate and white house. But the individual leaders who will begin the negotiations tomorrow, its the exact group of people. There are some personnel changes but not on that leadership. Those five people are the same. By the way, yesterday, the president did immediately face questions about the scandal that surrounds his now former cia director david petraeus. Hes used his time to praise petraeus. I have no evidence at this point from what ive seen, that classified information was disclosed, that in any way would have had a negative impact on our National Security. Press to answer again, whether he believed he was notified too late. The president again tried to say as little as possible. I am withholding judgment, with respect to how the entire process surrounding general petraeus came up. You know, we dont have all the information yet. But i want to say that i have a lot of confidence generally in the fbi. And theyve got a difficult job. It is also possible that had we been told, then youd be sitting here asking a question about why were you interfering in a criminal investigation. While the president withholds judgment, the investigation process is already under scrutiny on capitol hill. The heads of the fbi and the cia, the agenting head right now, mike morel met with them. Hes sifting through emails between general john allen and jill kelley. It came to light after kelley began receiving anonymous messages in may. Thinking she was being stalked, kelley flagged an fbi agent she knew, now identified as fred are dr frederick humphries. A hand full of emails between kelley and allen were flagged as inappropriate. However, this source insists there was no affair. Allen who has denied any wrongdoing and an affair and whose nomination as Supreme Commander in europe is on hold has pledged to cooperate with the investigation. Meanwhile, the fbi is still trying to wrap up the petraeus incident. Theyre looking through potential evidence taken from paul lal broadwells home during a consensual search earlier this week. Now, amid allegations that she mishandled classified information, the army has yanked broadwells security clearance. And on cnnhead line news, broadwell hasnt made any public comments, even in print. Meanwhile, petraeus will make it back on capitol hill to testify tomorrow on benghazi. Joining me nbcs correspondent kelly odonnell. And brad gilman, editoratlarge for time magazine. He wrote the cover story entitled the petraeus affair. Theres a whole lot of hearings on benghazi which, of course, all will sort of bleed into the petraeus affair. Give us the lineup today and what you expect to hear . Youre right, chuck. There is so much overlap, what weve heard from someone planning the committee meeting, intel, for both the house and senate side, they wanted to separate those matters of personal and security concerns to the issue that brought it to the table in the first place. Originally asking petraeus to testify when he was cia director and that was the benghazi matter. So the officials are here from the top people of intelligence, the director of national intelligence, cia and fbi, and theyre trying to piece together really some inside information that members of congress have said theyve been unable to get about the time line. Who knew what, when. Why when ambassador stevens had requested security, had talked about concerns he had, about the potential for more attacks in libya, why were those not addressed in a way that would have prevented his death and protected he and the three ours who were killed. What im getting from people here, they recognize there are National Security implications to what happened with petraeus in his resignation. But they want to try to create a little bit of distance between that and the important matters of benghazi that they feel need to be to be urgently dealt with now. It is a murky area. Absolutely. Kelly odonnell on capitol hill. Let me turn to bart gilman. His cover story of time magazine. You talked to a lot of people close to general petraeus. And hes expressing some remorse. Tell us more about what you learned, as you were digging around, on the petraeus end of things. Well, hes terribly remorseful. He knows that he crewed up, as he has told a number of people. He told friends as a matter of honor, he felt he had to resign. He understands that this is his fault. And hes really just laying low right now, trying to repair things with his own family. And you know, one of more quiet players in all of this has been his wife. I mean, is he at home . Is he welcome at home . Is his family welcoming him . Is he going to be given this opportunity to repair his personal life . Look, i have no way, and maybe not so much desire to peer into whats happening in the house right now. Clearly, his wife is furious. Hes got grown kids. His son is in the army. Sees his father very much as a role model. Im sure they have a lot of hard stuff to work through. And on the Paula Broadwell end of things, where does that relationship stand with general petraeus . Are they still friends . Are they talking . Have they talked . Well, i would imagine, for legal reasons, they probably shouldnt be talking right now. It is the case that when the affair ended in the summer, they continued to stay in close contact. Paula broadwell is still working on a dissertation in london that is centered on general petraeus leadership and command style. So they were seen publicly and had lots of contact before the affair, during the affair and after the affair. In fact, her book and her masters thesis before that and her dissertation afterward were sort of what the intelligence people would call cover for presence and cover for action. They were going to be together a lot either way. In that way, that didnt raise eyebrows. Bart gelman who has got the cover story on time magazine. Bart, thanks for coming on and sharing with us this morning. Weve got a lot more coming up. Including more reaction from are the senate. And also that business meeting that the president has. Thats all coming up next. Well be right back. [ male announcer ] if youre eligible for medicare. Nows a good time to think about your options. Are you looking for a plan that really meets your needs . And your budget . As you probably know, medicare only covers about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. So consider an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. 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There is, how much more in taxes, how much more in cuts is the big question surrounding all of these big debt and deficit negotiations with the fiscal cliff looming, the president continued what hes been calling his outside game on wednesday. Had a sitdown with a bunch of folkses from the business community. Meeting with a group of ceos at the white house. Joining me now is mark bertolini. He attended the meeting with the president. Thanks for coming on this morning. Good morning, chuck. Let me ask you this, how much talk diagnose the ceos do and how much talking did the president do . I think the president did mostly listening. He did open with a few comments about why we were together. And then the ceos shared their point of view as to how we can move forward to fix this problem. And what is it exactly that the ceos blerpledged to the president in there, if he did x, y and z, they would support him up to a point . What was that line or was there a line that there was sort of a collective agreement in that room of what they could support from the president and what they couldnt do . This was not a negotiation. This was very much a constructive, practical dialogue of a very really problem that weve got to solve as a country. And the president was seeking our input in asking us what we could do to support him and the congress in coming to a very balanced solution, including both revenues and entitlement reform. So didnt see this as all as negotiation. No lines in the sand. Wasnt nearly or wasnt at all the tense conversation that obviously the press had worked it up to be. Of course. Well, tell us exactly what were sort of what were a majority of the ideas given to the president . What were some of the ideas that you seem like, you felt like there was a consensus in that room are with what the president walked away hearing, oh, business wants this . Revenue needs to be on the table, definitely, so we have to increase revenues in some way, shape or form. So there was support for tax increases . There was support for revenue increases. How we get there is still to be determined. I think secondly, entitlement reform is very important. And that entitlement cut which is is a term, i think, laden with all sorts of emotional consequences, we need to ensure that entitlement programs are around for generations to come. And how we work these programs in the future is going to be very important. So this is not entitlement cuts next year. This is entitlement reform in the longer term. So i think a balance between those two is very much an important conversation that we had. Were supportive of that kind of result. But the most important aspect of this right now, is that in 45 days, we have a very bad outcome, unless congress and the president act. Let me ask you, and as a big player in the health care world, the president are winning reelection, it means that this Health Care Law is going to get implemented. The roots and the seeds have been planted but now its going to take root in this in the future. What role is that going to be playing in this new wave with the relationship between folks and health care . I think our role has always been that we need to be compliant with the law, but we need to find opportunities to make it better. And while the Affordable Care act begins to get people covered, we still have to address the 750 billion a year waste in the system that could more than pay for not only Affordable Care act, but half the nations deficit, if we get it right. And so i think thats a very important part of what our role needs to be. Its not just about insurance, but how do we make the system work better. All right, aetna ceo, mark bertolini. Thanks for coming on. Next, a look at the marriage gap and why president obama owes single men and women a big thanks. But thirst, todays trivia question what is the largest number of states won by a losing candidate in a president ial election . Tweet me the answer chucktodddailyrundown. Coming up. Lists all done. Raise the roof no one says that anymore, mom. [ woman ] raise the roof ah . Raise the roof [ male announcer ] its our biggest toy rollback of the year. Find hundreds of rollbacks on the seasons hottest toys in stores now, from americas gift headquarters, walmart. And you learned something along the way. This is the age of knowing what youre made of. So, why let erectile dysfunction get in your way . Talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. Ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. Do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. Side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. 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Its always a small advantage for the republicans. But this time, a bigger advantage for mitt romney. He won them 56 to 42 . Theres a problem for mitt romney, they only represented 60 of the electorate. Four years ago, 66 of the electorate. Married with children. Mccain increased his margin there over romney. Won it by 9, and for romney, 27 of the electorate in 2008, just 27 in 2012. Lets move on here. Unmarried voters didnt win them by that large of a margin. Won in 2008, 27. And heres the bigger story, look at this, unmarried voters represents 40 of the electorate in 2012. Margins matter a lot. In fact, president obama has done better with unmarried women, if you will, than any previous democratic president ial candidate. Hes the two best of any democratic candidate. He won is by 70 of the vote of unmarried women. No democrats come close to even the 67. As you see here. Gore, 63 was a pretty good one for him. That came up short. Two winning campaign, bill clinton, 62 . And then 92, 53 . Unmarried white women, i had a pollster tell me this was the most fluid part of the electorate. Unmarried white women, it isnt just single women under the age of 40. Dont just think there, youre also talking widows. So theres a good chuck of these folks. The president won them by six points. And they were 14 of the electorate. Yes, he won them by more, 19, but they were 13 of the electorate. But this is perhaps the most important swing voting group that you had to look at. I can tell you in senate race after senate race, the number that would fluctuate more than independents was unmarried white women. Is it a voting group we should continue to follow, continue to track. I encourage more pollsters. Not all pollsters do single and married enough in their factuals to get the you crosstabs. This marriage gap is an important track to be tracking but in particular, married and gender thrown in to one. Autopsy 2012, we will continue to do it throughout the rest of the year. Investors corner, new data shows the eurozone has zipped into a doubledigit reinvestigation. And Andrew Sorkin is here from cnbc. It seems theyre looking for a problem. Fiscal cliff. Europes always a problem, but it seems to be a bigger one today . A bit of a bigger one today. But im going to give you two other ones. Jobless claims, the first jobless claims since superstorm sandy. Heres the bad news, 78,000 new jobless claims. Were now up to 439,000 jobless claims. And that is not good news. You had to expect, and maybe it will come back, but thats putting a little bit of a fine point on really how impactful the storm ultimately was. Other big news that wall street is looking at, walmart. They reported earnings. But the bigger issue, they acknowledged for the first time that there is allegations of bribery, of potentially, the foreign corrupt practices act now in china, brazil, india, you might recall mexico . And mexico. Now, it looks like its expanding and that is going to be a big issue. Not just on wall street, but washington as well. Andrew ross sorkin at cnbc headquarters. Thanks very much. Great to see you. Well, is the middle east on the brink of another war . Were live in israel. Thats next. The daily rundown will be back in 30 seconds. As we told you, a really busy day on capitol hill. These are live pictures with the Senate Armed Services committee. Theyre holding a confirmation hearing for general dunford, he was nominated. Allens nomination is on hold. But dunfords nomination is going forward. A barrage of rocket attacks in israel overnight appear to be pushing that region closer to, who knows, hopefully not all allout war. It could turn into a Ground Campaign before long. And eman joins me. This all started not just to respond to what had been a slew of attacks by hamas over the border, but they went after a specific hamas leader. Tell us more. Reporter well, chuck that really depends on who you ask, theres no doubt from the israeli narrative that they felt that a number of rocket attacks coming from gaza into southern israel, that started the response. If you ask those here, its actually been a continuous attack on the gaza strip. And that ultimately led to frustration. Over the past week, weve seen several palestinians killed. Today, weve seen from the israeli site, three people have been killed from palestinian rocket fire in the southern part of israel. Im going to tell you where we are quickly to give you context. Were standing at the upmost or farthest point on the gaza strip. Between the crossing between israel and gaza. On the way in here, we saw about three dozen aid workers, from oxfront are and others, theyre here, the 1. 5 palestinians still here, you can hear that sound as well but for them, theyre unable to leave. So theres a great fear, anxiety and tension that the coming days are only going to have more violence. Over the past 24 hours there have been a barrage of rocket fire into southern israel. But weve noticed there have been several israeli air strikes inside here. Ayman, its worth bringing up the fact this is the biggest conflict between the two sides, between israel and the palestinians, since egypts leadership has changed. And we know that egypt has a different reaction to this than they did under president morsi than they had in the past under former president mubarak . Reporter absolutely. On a few different fronts. One, the leadership here, its currently aligned with the one that runs egypt. And president morsi comes from that. And the more important one, for the past several days theyve been trying to mediate between the palestinian faction in israel. They reached a truce, but that truce didnt hold for long. More importantly, israel is trying to resume a bit of a leadership role. Yesterday, they lobbied to secure the security council. And also they convened with the arab league to try to put an end to the barrage of fire. Some for its part are calling on egypt to sever ties with israel. That would be a major setback for the United States because the israeli egyptian peace treaty has been a cornerstone of u. S. Policy in the middle east. Ayman, well be checking in with you all day, i imagine. Thanks very much. Moving back to the domestic side of politics, Senate Republicans have elected their leaders for the 113th congress. And, boy, do the faces look familiar because they are. Out of the six top leaders, five leaders, and the chair of the Senate Campaign committee, theres just one new face. John cornyn has been promoted to replace retiring senator conless. And elected wednesday as vice chair of the republican conference, hes also a member of the senate committee. Senator, good morning. Good morning. Let me ask you, around the leadership front, youve been around this house a long time. And you around the republicans when they got ais shellacking i 2006. Should leadership have taken on more water, if you will . Should there be fresher faces brought in to respond to what was a messaging campaign that didnt work . Well, i think most of our leadership is relatively new. Ive been in the leadership a year. The two job above me have only held those junes for a year. I dont know if that would have the same impact. I think a lot of what happened this cycle and last cycle was so unprecedented in the way that people are reacting to outside assistance. And other things, that im not sure that would have had a lot of political impact, no matter what we did. But i do clearly think we need to communicate better. We need to have a message that is clearly coming through that an alternative message, when we dont agree with the president. Just saying we dont agree isnt good enough. Isnt going to be good enough. And it shouldnt be, frankly, good enough. Senator blunt, i want to get to a bunch of stuff here. Youre on the Intelligence Committee. Is general petraeus testifying before you today or not . Hes not. I think we will see him sometime today or tomorrow. You might see him today, youre still not sure . I think its scheduled for tomorrow. But im not absolutely sure. That was not locked down at the end of the day yesterday. And i there has been a commitment were going to see him sometime before the weekend. And i think we should. I think the gentlemens to general petraeus are what was in your report, and frankly, another question is, why havent we seen it . And im not sure he can answer that second question. But is a growing concern to the Intelligence Committee and to me, which is why isnt the administration sharing as quickly as they should, the information they have. But, frankly, chuck, if you listen to the president , the white house doesnt have the information that the white house should have on some of these topics in a way that would be acceptable and expected. Do you think susan rice, if she was getting the same intelligence briefings, as frankly, you guys were, on capitol hill, at that time that she went on that weekend after the days after the benghazi attacks, should she be held responsible for for communicating what was the best intelligence that the cia was providing at the time . And had that held against her, if shes nominated to be secretary of state . Well, if she knew things that she was not telling, thats a big problem. I think the president said yesterday that the information she had but theres no evidence of that, is there . Well, you asked the question, chuck. Im just answering the question you asked, which is if she knew things she didnt tell, is that a problem . Yeah, it would be a problem. But the president said yesterday that she said everything she knew. Thats really the big question. Why is it that five days after this, thats the only thing that the white house says they knew. And the only thing they say they told the person they put out on five different news programs. I think its a lot bigger problem, frankly, than what susan rice said. Its why she was told that was what was going on. I think by five days after september 11th, most people in the Intelligence Community had reached another conclusion. If youll believe the president , apparently, they didnt tell him that, but i think that information was out there and should have been, information that both the president , the secretary of state, the ambassador to the u. N. , if theyre going to send her out to talk about this should have had. Right. But it seems as if the report she got as authored by mike more morell, the acting director of the cia. Is your beef with the cia and not susan rice . If thats the information that she got, the question is, who did she get it from . Was it changed from the time from are either mike morell got it or somebody else . Were going to get to the bottom of this. I think thats a clearly important topic for the Intelligence Committee to look at. My belief is, our chairman, Dianne Feinstein, is as eager to get to the bottom of this as any republican on that committee. And we will. Senator blunt, i want to get your reaction to what mitt romney was overheard on a donor Conference Call saying yesterday as to why he lost. Do you agree with his assessment that he lost because of gifts . Because of what . Gifts, if you will, to certain constituency groups. I didnt i didnt hear the comment. And dont know the context of it. I think we lost because the president turned out more voters in the battleground states than anybody thought he was possibly going to be able to turn out. And the mechanics of politics matter as wells as the message of politics. And, frankly, we were not in those nine states in june and july in setting the stage. Or on election day, in turning out voters as we needed to be to get this done. I was of the belief, chuck, that we wouldnt see the 2008 turnout model in a way that had elected the president. And in fact, in those nine states, they beat the 2008 turnout model. I think i was right in the other 41 states or so, but in the nine where they really put themselves to the task, they did an extraordinary job. Senator roy blunt, republican from missouri. Thank you. You bet. Our Political Panel will be here next. A programming the snow, meet the press panel, Dianne Feinstein and Lindsey Graham and mike rogers. First, the white house assume of the day, chipotle beef. Im careful now on how to pronounce chipotle. I think the best flavor right now is the flavor of 2013. Dont forget to check out the website. Msnbc. Com. Well be right back. Three. My Credit Card Rewards are easy to remember. 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Try aleve d for strong, all day long sinus and headache relief. What the president s campaign did was focus on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote. The chicken in every pot strategy, or at least in that. That was former governor mitt romney during a Conference Call with top donors. Portions of that call were posted online. Romney campaign tells nbc news, governor romney was simply elaborating about what David Axelrod said. Joining me, john ralston of ralston reports. He got up early. I know he doesnt like doing that out there. But i appreciate it. John, let me start with you, got got a whole bunch of republican governors who responded to romneys comments. And boy, did they seem to pour cold water on romneys chances. Its amazing. What better place to come, the land of second chances, for reelection, than these republican governors. Bobby jindal saying you cant keep dividing the american people. Essentially saying we cant be the dumb party anymore. Im surprised they still call themselves the republican governors association. Theyre changing their branding this week in vegas. Michael steele, blame the voters . Its an odd, stupid, silly thing to say. It goes to the frustration the republicans had about how the campaign was executed. Not just on the romney level. But the National Strategy by the rnc. The losses in the senate which were, you know, amazing. Given where we were, six, eight, ten months ago. The reality is, i said it before, ill say it again, party, get your head out of your you know what, understand that america has changed. Change with it. You dont have to change your realities, but adapt to them. People want to hear you speak to your concerns. In an odd way, romney has provided a way for republicans that want to be 2016 players, right . Bobby jindal took that softball pip and hit it out of the park and said thats not me. Absolutely, bobby jindal has been to iowa, and other governors are looking at it as well. It does give them opportunity. I think they need more time few. They need a few more months. Its always easy to hate on the loser right now. Look, on one hand i understand when you lose a race, you cant believe that you were the problem and your message is off. The first big post election interview with mitt romney will be fascinating, isnt it . Yeah, it will be. He sounded very statesman like when he gave his concession speech. Then to come out and essentially dig up the 47 video and attach these racialized identities to these people. I thought it was very offensive. It was inappropriate. Certainly not helpful to his party. He sounds like a man who doesnt really have a future in politics. Also sounds like a map who doesnt understand americans. Doesnt understand you cant win iowa and new hampshire. Thats what is odd about it. It doesnt explain losing iowa and new hampshire. How sober is this rga meeting . Youve been hanging out there. How sober is it out there . Well, i think its very sober. This is just remarkable to see. Suddenly they discovered demography does have something to do with winning elections. As if realizing this latino population, oh suddenly, look, we better start saying things we havent said. I think they thought hispanics only lived in california and not to worry about it. Stick around. Were going to talk a little 2016. Trivia time. What is the largest number of states not electoral votes, won by a losing state . Answer. It was 27. In 1976 gerald ford won more states than jimmy carter. Into their work, their name on the door, and their heart into their community. Small business saturday is a day to show our support. A day to shop at stores owned by our friends and neighbors. And do our part for the businesses that do so much for us. 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