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Million between 2010 and 2012 in very conservative tea party backed candidates. some of them are great. rubio, rand paul, pat toomey. some were disastrous. todd akin, david murdock and sharron angle. we need to evaluate everything we did. but it also includes, i think, focusing more on quality candidate selection to make sure that weve got really, really good candidates who can win in elections and that we can effectively back when we get into general elections. >> chris, one of the chief compla...

And never a good plan in politics, much less just in social conversation -->> in life yeah. i mean but even if you tossed those out you are talking about a senate to otherwise be exactly what it was the day before. >> remarkable. >> i think republicans fall in to a trap looking at whens going on in the senate and dont sense a problem in terms of not just messageing but candidate selection. republicans in that they have lost the candidates the theres a backlash against that and need to find a way...

Missouri. claire mckaskell has a real race on her hands no matter who the voters pick in the primary today. i think most observers in missouri consider aiken probably her best opponent, the one that would make the race the most competitive. but if steelman or br u.n. er wins she is at this point expected to lose. jenna: if you do look at the polls and we dont dig deep into them on election day theres been a real divide between the three candidates. we also saw in texas that it was such a real ti...

There were several seats -- nevada, colorado, delaware -- that the republicans almost certainly would have won had they nominated the more electable candidate for the general election. they chose to go in another direction, and democrats won those three seats. now, again, thats peoples constitutional right. jenna: sure. >> they can vote for anybody for any reason -- [laughter] but party leaders, naturally, focus on electability. jenna: well, and thats their job, right? candidate selection. thats...

Well come back and talk a little bit more about this later. let us go -- you know thats what theyre saying! good thing its romney. a little political tidbit for you as a system we all know and love continues to struggle to actually revive itself in a sense. between 2002 and 2008, an incumbent politician was more likely to die in office than be defeated in a primary election. that is how uncompetitive our competitive democracy has become when it comes to candidate selection. that is one of the re...