gender gap problem among the worst of all the republican candidates this year. boy, did republican candidates this year have a gender gap problem. look at this. florida senate race, republican connie mack lost to democrat bill nilsson by 13 points overall but 20 by women. in missouri, republican todd akin lost to claire mccaskill by 16 points and women, 22 points. tom tom smith in pennsylvania lost 18 to women. richard mour dock lost by six points overall and lost 12 points women. and in virginia, george allen, by six points overall and twice that margin among women by 12 points. in wisconsin, republican tommie thompson lost to tammy baldwin the democrat by five points and
was to bring climate change to the fore. to that extent, if republicans got hurt because of the storm, because of the abysmal stupid of the position denying climate change. the storm did remind people how wrong they were. i think this question. the senate i hope and president will come up with a balanced plan, substantial cuts in the military. that s one we won. romney tried to make that an issue. for the first time a president campaigned on less military spending in my memory or lifetime and successful. won virginia. a military state. secondly, you get tax increases on the very wealthy, which showed to be popular. romney ran away from cut their taxes. yeah. there ll be some domestic spending restraints. not raising the retirement age. one of the reasons i m glad i m not running again, when i tell people, i don t think a woman who started waiting on tables at
one of the things the storm did was to bring climate change to the fore. to that extent, if republicans got hurt because of the storm, because of the abysmal stupidity of the position denying climate change. the storm did remind people how wrong they were. i think this question. the senate i hope and president will come up with a balanced plan, substantial cuts in the military. that s one we won. romney tried to make that an issue. for the first time a president campaigned on less military spending in my memory or lifetime and successful. won virginia. a military state. secondly, you get tax increases on the very wealthy, which showed to be popular. romney ran away from cut their taxes. yeah. there ll be some domestic spending restraints. not raising the retirement age. one of the reasons i m glad i m not running again, when i tell people, i don t think a woman who started waiting on tables at
he is there in glen allen, virginia. i want to explain a little something. we ve got some video to help illustrate this. if you see the president, he s wiping his brow here. that isn t sweat. what happened was a torrential downpour a little earlier. you can see the evidence on people s clothing behind him. people got soaked. the president moved up the speech, when they saw a break in the weather, they said, let s head out there right now. he s at a place with lots of history, the president specifically chose this as a place to speak about what he wants to clish theaccomplish th. in virginia it s a tossup swing state. it had been a red state for many, many years, but the president won virginia by six points in 2008.
and that s kind of a tough call, but that s the way i see it. gentlemen, thanks for your time this morning, i appreciate it. thank you. virginia has been called the mother of presidents. the two men hoping to be elected president in november are converging their campaigns on that swing state. last two days for mitt romney have included three stops in the commonwealth. president obama has been in virginia for the next two days, or the next two, that is, with stops planned in arlington and richmond. their love for the old dominion coming as a new poll shows voters there have little more love for the president. a solid seven-point lead for president obama making virginia right now look a little more blue than red. joining me for today s political power panel our former white house deputy press secretary for president obama jen shockey, senior communications strategist with new media strategies, j.p. blair and mika henderson, a political reporter for the washington post. it s great