you kidding me? or to herman cain, or you know, when sarah palin was riding around, calling barack obama a socialist, bordering on a communist. and all these other things that were going on. crazy never wins, but we learned another thing. you better stand up to crazy, if you want to win in bucks county, pennsylvania. if you want to win in the i-4 corridor. if you want to win in the sub b suburbs of columbus, ohio. if you want to win in the election, in the places where elections are also won. well, i can ask you, john heilemann as a keen observer of the electoral scene, was not the die cast for mitt romney and perhaps the rest of the year in terms of republican politics on the evening when all of the ten candidates on stage were asked to raise their hands if they were in favor of a dollar raise in revenue and $10 in budget
love of country. it is election day, america. today s a huge day? yes, people are choosing on the direction of krthe country. just four hours from now the first election polls are going to close. it s not so bad new hampshire is too close to call, virginia too close to call, florida too close to call. pennsylvania has been held by president obama. so far not exactly the way the night that i think that romney would hope for. ohio. president barack obama. remains president of of the united states for a second term. the romney family has chosen to give back to america through public service and that is a legacy that we honor and applaud tonight. i so wish that i had been able to fulfill your hopes to lead the country in a different direction but the nation chose another leader and so ann and i join with you to earnestly pray for him and for this great nation.
this country. we talk about makers and takers. to me the 47% in many ways is reflecting what the occupy wall street folks talked about when they talked about we are the 99% and hopefully i hope that issue that romney s comment, as short as it was, has rei go nated a conversation in this country about jobs, the kind of jobs we want, the kind of incomes that we think people should need. i think it s raised issues about unions. i think it s much more than just a political sentence. it s taken on sorts of other meanings i think will change the debate and has already begun as we go into the new year. what s interesting, andrea, the president won. no doubt about it. he won handily. if you look at one night, one big event that i think a lot of us thought might be the defining moment, it was the first debate in denver where the president of the united states decided to just kind of not show up. it was profoundly important at the time and i think
in budget cuts. and not one raised his or her hand. that was the definition of crazy. right there. a vivid illustration and you think about mitt romney constantly out trying to get further to the right than anybody who challenged him. get to the right in immigration, to the right of rick santorum on contraception. these are not places where you win elections in the middle of the electorate. those are positions if not crazy then pretty far outside the mainstream. and, by the way, those are things guys like my dad who never voted for a democratic president in his life would look at the tv set and go, are they kidding me? i m turning over to see the atlanta braves. all right. i just want to end on this one which made had headlines, it was the cover story of the atlantic. why women still can t have it all by ann marie slaughter. remember this one? this is important to me. all my life i d been on the other side of this exchange. i d been the woman smiling, the
here now are the top moments that stood out from romney s run, the good, the bad and the ugly. i have just called president obama to congratulate him on his victory. his supporters and campaign also deserve his congratulations. i wish all of them well but particularly the president, the first lady and their daughters. this is a time of great challenges for america and i pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation. developing news right now, mitt romney makes it official launching his 2012 presidential bid today in new hampshire. rick, i ll tell you what, $10,000? $10,000 bet? as they would say in china i m speaking, i m speaking, i m speaking.