propelling president obama to four more years. but when s in store for a second term? and what will the president be able to accomplish before leaving the white house? recent history shows some highs and lows for second-term presidents. what can president obama learn from the mistakes and big breaks that shaped the country for the last 30 years? and a who s who to keep your eyes on for the coming year. and years. will new names emerge as the leading voices of their parties while old, familiar ones drive the early jockeying for the next presidential fight. happy holidays and new year. and hello from washington. that is special year-end edition of the daily rundown. i m chuck todd. we ll look at what lessons we got from 2012, what they ll mean for 2013, how power could shift in 2014 and who s taking the long hard look for a bid for 2016 and maybe slipping in 2015
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to new hampshire. what are their paths to 270? chuck todd is the man with the maps and all the toys and political director and chief white house correspondent and host of the daily run down and you have all of the scenarios for us. i first of all, take us through what you think are the most likely paths to 270 for each of these two candidates? today s schedule is everything, actually. so let s take the president s first. first we put pennsylvania, obviously, but if they get ohio where he s going today, wisconsin where they re going today, and iowa, where he closes it out, this is without nevada, this puts him at 271, this what is they believe is their fastest, most narrowest path. now, why is romney doing what he s doing with florida today? virginia. don t forget north carolina is one that they re counting on. new hampshire and then ohio.
and move over, david gregory s got his own gangnan style. side to side right after this. good day. i m andrea mitchell, live in washington. joining us, chris elissa managing editor of post politics.com and chuck todd, chief white house correspondent, political director and host of the daily run down here on msnbc. chuck, to you and you chris, the foreign policy debate this week that we ve seen mitt romney coming out while the state department is still trying to identify bodies, notify next of kin with a sharp attack, didn t have his facts right and a lot of criticism about that, but now also criticism from republicans of not laying out his foreign policy vision and criticism of the president. where did he follow up with the
joining us now from washington, nbc news chief white house correspondent, political director and host of the daily run down chuck todd, good morning. good morning to you. i want to get your take on the pick and what it means but also hear how this came to pass. you and your team and our political unit down there broke this story late saturday night. walk me through those hours on saturday leading up to the news? well, you know, i would say you have to go back three or four days before when there was just nothing but a drip drip drip of clues that seemed to be, wait a minute, at first it was is it the short list is more than portman and pawlenty, there s somebody else and then it was clear it was portman, pawlenty and ryan. then the interview i did with romney which most of it is for this biographical documentary we re doing right before the convention, but when he left that clue about whate wanted in his vice presidential pick it was like, okay, that sounds like ryan am i overr