that number slide? as we ve spoken before, tim kaine, he gets elected to the senate, he was talking about the number 500,000 as being that threshold. do you think that s where compromise might come, just in the amount? there could be compromise on that. whether it s 1 million, 500,000, 250,000, who above that should pay more. you could also see compromise ironically on a proposal that mitt romney made in the second first debate, very vague but nonetheless something that some democrats are quite interested in. which is instead of trying to tackle these very popular tax deductions, like the deduction for charitable giving or for home mortgages, that instead what they would do is cap the percentage of your income that you can deduct. and basically take more out of the hide of the wealthy that way and say, you know what, if you give away half of your income to
apparently in of issues that the romney campaign frankly didn t quite get. the obama campaign team understood what the electorate would look like, and the romney team did not. it is a divided country ideal logically. there are divisions that are still going to have to be healed. 55 million or so people voted for president obama, 53 million and change voted against him. right? so those 53 million people are going to have to be persuaded. and are going to have to be brought along. but i don t wouldn t use the word fractured for the country so much as just an evolving country, a changing country. but it s a different-looking country. it s a different-feeling
exactly. and it was very interesting. president obama in his acceptance speech mentioned governor romney and the fact that he would have further conversations with the governor about ways in which we might work together. now, that could just be nice words, but i kind of hope they do. well, you hope they do. because this president has been accused at times of not necessarily going that route and opening the discussion with those who oppose his ideology. so if he talked about learning something from this election, is that one of the things he may have learned? i hope so. i hope. so because frankly, he needs to reach out sometimes in a more personal way, in a more human way, to those who really do disagree with him. he doesn t have to give up his values or his ideas, but yes,
good day to all of you. welcome to weekends with alex witt. it is 1:00 right on the nose here in the east. 10:00 a.m. out west. we re going to get to what s happening right now. once again to reiterate our breaking news. nbc is now able to make a call for the presidential election in the state of florida and project barack obama as the winner there. since tuesday, florida had three counties still counting absentee ballots. their deadline was noon today. so once again, nbc news is now projecting barack obama as the winner in florida. that brings the total electoral college for the president to 332 while mitt romney finishes the election with 206. we re going to bring you more from florida in just a bit. now let s get to some new details about the surprise resignation of cia director david petraeus. the four-star general admitted to an extramarital affair in his resignation letter to the
compromise. in both democratic and republican audiences, romney and obama audiences, the big applause line in the last few weeks of the campaign was when there was talk of bipartisanship an compromise. and any politician in washington, i don t care how right wing they are, who doesn t get that is not going to be around for very much longer. okay. well, i m glad you will be around for awhile as always. thank you very much, jonathan alter. we ll see you again. stick around for this. breaking news for all of you. nbc is now able to make a call for the presidential election in the state of florida and project president barack obama as the winner there. since tuesday florida had three counties still counting absentee ballots. their deadline was noon today. once again, nbc news is now projecting barack obama as the winner in florida. and that brings the total electoral college for the president to 332 while mitt romney finishes the elections with 206. we ll be right back here on weeke