i would also say this race was more of a referendum in some way on mitt romney than it was the president and that s unusual. did your side i know you re a true believer and i respect that. i mean it. do you think they didn t really believe he believed? no, i don t think that was the problem. i think the bigger problem was two things. they never personally connected with him. they never felt this attachment and didn t see him as this person. that s his personality. secondly, i think we failed midd middle-income blue collar voters who feel we no longer understand their daily life and that we think it sal about the social issues and fighting the tax breaks for the wealthy. i know. my dad s a regular republican, not a right winger. he e said the trouble with my party is they care about the big corporations too much, like ge used to always point to it. look at this. romney s senior adviser defended his campaign this week in a big article he wrote.
there s a reason that romney seemed confident. it showed them they were on the brink of victory. but it was of little resemblance to the people who actually showed up to the polls. the new magazine has an illustration of it. they returned the poll numbers from the romney camp leading up to the november 6 election. in iowa the campaign numbers showed them tied with obama. in reality obama beat them by about 6 points. actually 2 p.5. in new hampshire romney s polls had him ahead by five or three rather. these are like nine-point differences. it also showed the internal numbers were off in wisconsin, and it shows even more clearly why their confidence peeked right before the vote. over the last wecht the romney numbers showed romney gained strong momentum.
you wouldn t see the market crash the next day. you d have time. thank, you joy reid. it is a cliff. how they thank had this baby won. also did republicans lose the election because voters rejected mitt romney or did they lose because voters rejected what mitt romney iwwas saying h believed. for an oath birther like louie, the election s finally over. believe it or not, two political parties that were both modern and moderate, that was a long time ago. we re going to talk about that, the days of eisenhower. this is hardball, the place for politics. if it wasn t for you
we don t have to worry about you. i cannot think of an idea more an threat calm well, that s a strong state. did he mean the 47 thinking or the fact that david corn and mother jones got that out and said that down there? i think part of it is we let them was it about looking down on people? i think what happened is early on the obama people did a good job with the perception that mitt romney was not george bailey. he was mr. potter. right. then we said narratives that confirmed that to people. lionel barrymore. we kept do that as a party. we have to let everybody know we understand their lives. failed in 2010. but we can do well again. the banker s eye, right? tip of the ice. your thoughts, bochblt is it just the personality? the guy looked like an elitist, cold-hearted guy that would say
he said the campaign had the right had but failed to communicate better to hispanics and women, oh, my god. they communicated all right, quite well. i think we should have done a better job reaching out to women voters. the governor has a great record on women s issues. we should have done a better job and we should have done a better job reaching out to hispanic voters. we should have done it earlier and in a more effective way and looking forward those are questions for the party. we have a good message there. we need to do a better job i would argue that the message got out fuor akin and mourdock. it shows single women were really turned off. they liked the looks of romney in the first debate. a lot of numbers showed they liked what they saw and then they go, oh, this other stuff is scaring me away. that s what i think. i don t think the structure