romney would have won for this or that reason when, in fact, there are some really structural problems with the republican party, and he didn t run a very good campaign. i mean, those are two things that i think republicans have to step back and look at and figure out. if they re going to try to pin it on something like sandy, they re missing the story. megyn: it reminds me of a baseball game are the one team is losing, and they re getting conservative stated, and it comes down to the last minute and somebody strikes out, and it s like, oh! well, if the whole team had played better, it wouldn t be up to that one last incident. yeah. i just want to pick up on what kirsten is saying. i don t think that the republican party has structural problems. did mitt romney make some mistakes? of course. so did barack obama. but i think the result we saw last night points to something much bigger, and that is that president obama and the left have had enormous success over the last four years, an
everybody was thinking the momentum swung for romney and he had a chance of winning. now they give those points back plus more. i thought it would be closer to 500 points today and i think we ll get to 50 ought next couple days. there are a lot of small businesses, ceos of corporations that were on romney s side. the fact that obama is back in office, there is a lack of confidence and uncertainty. when a government decides how you are regulated, how much you pay in taxes, you don t sell all our stocks in one day. you stopped expanding, you stop hiring. there is no reason the stock market should be up today. megyn: we have had a lot of warnings from folks saying if america doesn t do something about its mounting deficit and debt they will downgrade our credit and so on. given the intransagainst we have
to with the exit polling. the 15% number, i think, could actually be significant because on its face it does seem like a small number. but at the margins perhaps the storm did have a tiny bit of effect, to kirsten s point. but look, you know, this president really hasn t demonstrated much leadership at all, so the idea that he swoops in during a storm and actually does the job that we hired him to do, i mean, megyn, this is why you hire a president. this is the bare minimum of what a president should do in a national crisis or a natural disaster is to do what he did, and maybe it just seems so refreshing that we finally saw him doing what we hired him to do that it kind of got people maybe to take a second look. i do think that the storm threw a monkey wrench in mitt romney s momentum because it disrupted the storyline, and i think that bipartisan photo op with chris christie also kind of damaged mitt s narrative, that he was the only one that could work across the aisle with other
eleven months of campaigning later, president obama has defeated the governor to win a second term. but look at the numbers. governor romney challenged the president all night long in the popular vote and ended up improving the republican performance over 2008 with every significant group of voters almost. so what should the republican party do next? laura ingraham is a syndicated radio host and a fox news contributor and was saying yesterday a romney loss means the gop better do some soul searching. put this in perspective. yep. megyn: what does it mean? the chart is interesting and, sure, romney peeled off a few points with some key constituency groups, but i think, megyn, it s time to end the happy talk for republicans. i mean, the president ran a terrific campaign. his group was stellar. they used every opportunity, exploited every issue, some would say exploited some crises, but nevertheless, they put together a coalition that felt mitt romney was not someone they could identi
mentioned about whether congress can reach a deal to avoid the so-called cliff, reach a deal with the president. that s a series of automatic tax increases. they will happen unless there s some intervention. and spending cuts, including massive cuts to our defense spending. all of it will happen in weeks, and the economists say it would cause massive trouble for our economy, could send us into another recession, they say. house speaker john boehner is speaking with republican house members about this issue next hour in a big conference call, and we expect to hear more from that, about that from speaker boehner once his meeting wraps up. as that news breaks, we ll bring it to you. and when it came to losing, governor romney did something last night that hasn t gotten a lot of attention today. when president obama gave his victory speech, governor romney streamed that live on his official romney campaign web site. mr. romney s concession speech was also posted to the site during which