back to the 70s. it s going to be, you know, people are going to be shooting drugs on your stoop. and it didn t work. and steve, i think that the politics of crime have really been so central to american politics so long and they re really shifting in a fundamental way. sure. that s what a declining crime rate will do. that s what low murder rates will do. if you talk about the streak in the city. 1989, the last time a democrat won a mayoral race. that was what empowered the rise of giuliani. you had the crown heist. that gave way to bloomberg. every time the crime rate fell it s let s not change. let s re-elect giuliani and then bloomberg. then the republicans this year threw the old playbook at de blasio in this general election. karen, do you think it s changing at the national level too? i do.
re-election victory earlier todd. joining me now, steve carnaky, and john nichols. and karen finney and former communications director for the dnc. that part of the christie speech embodied the whole speech, which is it true you re all looking at me? am i right, all of america? i can feel your eyes on me and if you think it s true, it is true. i am all that and more. that was basically the chris christie speech. except i think you re being a little modest. this is chris christie. it s who he is. he didn t change his style. i think the interesting thing is, he gave one of the longer victory speeches i ve ever heard. and the problem with it is, while it s an okay introduction, i still don t see how that plays
that of course is terry mcauliffe, victorious tonight in the virginia gubernatorial race. marty walsh will be the next mayor of boston. and parker elected in houston to be the mayor. she s the democrat there. we also have some results from alabama s first congressional district in a proxy battle between the chamber of commerce and the tea party wing. it appears the chamber of commerce republican candidate is going to emerge victorious there. defeat for a tea party candidate who said the president was born in kenya. it also appears in colorado the counties that were voting on seceding from colorado are not going to secede, although that is yet to be finally determined. that big ballot initiative we talked to you about the taxes in colorado, voters in colorado have rejected that, it appears. although they will be taxing marijuana. we re back with with our panel. big takeaways from tonight. steve, i ll start with you. i ll start in boston. i hope you enjoyed that mayors
race. it s probably going to be the last one you get in 30 years. it is like mayor for life up there. the last one before this was 20 years ago. the big national take is virginia was, still is the premiere swing state in the country. because there is a warning shot here for the overreach of tea party republicanism. certainly that s what put terry mcauliffe over the to be. i m looking at the map tonight from virginia and i m looking at the same map i saw election night in 2012. there s no state in the country that tracks closer to the national average in 2012 than virginia. it s the same thing. it s a huge concentration of democratic votes right outside d.c. and just enough democrats in the right circumstances to get them over the top right now. karen finney. the obama coalition of voters is no joke. and i say that to say i agree completely with steve. if you look at virginia, i mean, what terry did that was so important was he got he turned out voters. he turned out what we would
king maker. people talk about romney as a flip-flopper. you think about trump ran for president as a pro-choice candidate. good news for the republicans here. steve, is it good news for republicans that trump now probably can t run third party having endorsed somebody else for president? i m only talking in the crazy world where anything can happen. here s the good news for republicans if mitt romney is the nominee. by not angering donald trump too much, mitt romney probably guarantees trump will not use his media flat form to trash mitt romney. he will focus on president obama, probably. this is the most beautiful day in american politics. one is having his honeymoon in vegas with donald trump. and here s president obama talking about the poor at the prayer breakfast today. this is how he chose to spend his day. he gave reasoning for standing for foreign aid one of the