let s bring in the research fellow at the hoover institution and chief policy adviser to the romney campaign. msnbc columnist for the daily beast. political reporter, the los angeles times national correspondent. does he get your vote. he wants to unite republicans. he doesn t get my vote, but the idea is to speak to independent and moderate voters in a part of the country like orange county where they can make a vote. the idea was to mobilize the voters. they didn t vote in mid-term elections. as a campaign speech, not all that effective, but as rhetoric, interesting. does the obama of old work in the day of new? he is more a candidate of the future, the ex-president of the future than donald trump. the country and the world are moving ultimately in obama s