biggest political stirs. we bring on our power panel. joining me now,es ant professor at northwestern university, victoria difrancesco soto. democratic analyst and senior advisor to hillary clinton. and republican strategist and former special assistant to president george w. bush, ron christie. our first question, would you want to share a fox hole with eric cantor? today s speaker boehner, boehner made a big show of being a comrade with the man who recently has been stealing his spotlight. listen, we re in the fox hole. and i m going to tell you what, this is not easy. i m glad eric s there. ki ki, do you believe there is unity and brotherly law between cantor and boehner or are they trying to do some
you re half way down the aisle but you turned around. i m going to consummate the marriage and give the award. i think that they turned out a terrific ground game. i think that if you look at the fact that the republican polls were right, but they underestimated turn out, that was the ground game. had there not been the ground game and the turn out, we would be having a much different i. election and a much different revvie award. it would be a much different revvie, too. up next, we have a this dud s for you award for the worst political move in 2012. let me start with you u crystal? who wins the worst award? it is kind of a group. but it goes a little bit off of what victoria was just saying. daryl isa failing to put a single woman on a congressional panel to talk about contraception.
i m al sharpton, host of politics nation. it s a big night. and we re going to be giving out awards for the high and low points of politics in 2012. to do that, we have a star studded cast of judges. jonathan kapart. victoria difrancesco soto. crystal ball and richard wolf. all looking very elegant this evening, i might say. let s get right to it. let s go right to the first category. let s get started with the best performer in the thriller award. richard, who made the best political move of the year. can i be the simon cowell of this panel? okay, here we go. best political move. i am tempts to say the whole obama campaign ground came. the whole people who turned out all of these people to vote. but i don t want to be like