economy and jobs. i had successes and failures. but each step of the way i learned more about what it is that makes our american system so powerful. you can't learn that teaching constitutional law at university of chicago. all right? >> joining me now is nbsz news political director and host of msnbc's "the daily run down" am tell us how it happened, how he put it together in illinois. >> demographics. i want to say, it tells a story better than anything we can do. romney won because he just fit the state of illinois better. i'm going to pick three areas and compare them to mississippi and ohio and keep these three percentages in mind. in mississippi, romney got 31% in ohio, 38%.