mike. years. and he got of the black vote twice in statewide elections as o you do that? no one gets african-americans. how do you do that? and he said to me, and this is a southern thing, and if jimmy were sitting here he d approve i m sure. he s not too far but he hogan, no one has ever caught a fish sittin t talking they h and throw the bait in the wat didn t do ion years. he did it all the they trusted him. and he really in this campaign at all. i don t even think the romney campaign reached out much to the african-amer they just figured white vote gone. we have a call to make coming out of nevada. let s go ahead and tell you what we know arace that the race is going to go t heller. this is something dean heller was a former congressman from appointed to this seat after john ens advance of this harshly critical senate ethics report on his ean heller is going to the winner there berk joining us in a momentida, a state we still have not been able to call yet. back in a moo
when typically incumbent presidents struggle to build any kind of majority when you see thtrong unemployment numbers out there. to pick up on one thing that jonathan allerepublica long time to ney ia lot of people didn t expect. he did worse among latinos than john mccain, who got 36% among latinos. ght ack obama by 40 points. we also know latino up from 8% just two cycles ago to 10%. 1 out of every 10 voters and growing. and i think that s a product ofe rhetoric and some of the tough policies we heard from the republican party. and a big q how they can get back on the side of a growing voting denigrating people in the country. off of the polls and leading upthis. right. brut where do you think the romney campaign and their team lost any ot of traction out of it. they did. course? they re going to be blaming hurricane sandy for a lot of things. you re hearing thais christie. i think sandy but not in the way they think. not just because it shut him out thomas.
from here. they re staying at tonight, where they had watched the home just about ebb ten miles away in belmont, massachusetts. one more thing, thomas. going to be the new president he would a new dog, a wiem raner, which is a hunting dog. at this point wehe plans to do romney s plans are from here. thomas? chris want to bring in nour the political power panel that we ve assembled that will be with me for the next two correspondent for the nation artie melber salon editor at ributor and president latino maria teresa kumar, and former national f communications director for the rick santorum gr hogan gidley. as well as msnbc contributor and managing edito joy ann reid ands msnbc contributor and former aide to rick santorum robert traynham. guys, great to have you here. to start with you because you re all the way over there on my right. i m g figuring out but your r evening. the polls gave an indication of what to expect going into tonight. a lot of people would have thought. it s de
i want to thank my friend and partner of the last four years, america s happy warrior, the best vice president anybody ever hope for, joe biden. welcome back everybody. it is 3:32 right now on the east headquarters in new york. 12:32 out west. and it s great to have you with us tonight. as president obama has been re-elected for ace. let s take a look though at the states that brought him over the threshold, the 270 nee as of right obama has a projected 303. this to mitt romney s 206. as we go to the map, states look at this. the 25 states in the district of columbia went blue for the pres so far the only swing state that swung for mitt romney was north carolina. and we bring back in our panel ghters that i am so excited to have with me. break we talked about marriage equality and the big things that we have seen
undercurrent out there. no one can put a handle on it. what was thes it going to be the push for romney that would win him some of these states? and it wasit was a complete domination with the youth vote. and it was not tapped into. and no one saw it coming because pollsters, as you know when someone says hey, did you vote in the last election and they say no that s the end looking at kids that have shown up outside of the white house tonight. maria teresa i know as you latino vote was but therebe expectationsr years from thise definitive policies on immigration and from his team and certainly from congress. talk about that when we down who has control of the house for the u.s. sedecided. in montana the incumbent t jon tester has a lead. and in nj rick berg are neck and neck. continuing coverage on msnbc when we come back.