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She an incredibly boring candidate. >> boring at best. >> the rnc as you know as we talked about, the rnc spevent only $3 million. four years ago they spent 9 million. >> that alone, shutdown is different. if the $9 million comes in, cuccinelli could be governor elect today. >> oh my lord. >> i think you still need to deal with the nomination process. >> absolutely. >> these caucuses and conventions do always bring out the least electable general election candidate. i money, who shows up? which ...

Virginia than barak obama or ken cuccinelli. >> or terry mcauliffe. >> bob mcdonald remains popular. >> he has a big story if virginia is women which helped lead, of course the nbc news exit polls the democrats to victory. more than half voted for mcauliffe. voters believe the economy and health care were top issues in the election. cuccinelli beat mcauliffe on votes, keeping it close. the issue of abortion rights helped mcauliffe eek out the win. voters said it was their tough issue preferred m...

Obama care story line had been out there a little longer? >> i couldnt tell. my guess is that the obama care played into this. on the other hand, as axelrod before, mcauliffes polk is at two or four and ends up at three, so were not so sure. to me the take away from this election was this. while mcauliffe won, democrats and liberals by slightly bigger margins than cuccinelli did by conservatives and republicans, the fact that cuccinelli could win independents by 9 percentage points and lose the ...

And supported i. >> i think if it was cuccinelli. if the virginia sweep, it still may end up being a sweep, then i can sit is there and say, in alabama, too, this really proved it because you can beat the tea party on tea party turf in a tea party type of election, right, a small turnout, all those things, but because of what happened in the lack of establish. support, helping cuccinelli, versus what the establish. did. i think its only actually going to, just pour gasoline on the fire. >> oh. >...

Caucus process cuccinelli was one of the more moderate candidates. >> the ting from the exit poll, though, which is that they asked who do you blame for the government shutdown in virginia? actually, it was spread evenly, just bare lir they blame more republicans than obama. my theory. >> hold on, though, you got to finish that story, though, for people whose vote was decided on the government shutdown, that broke big for democrats. >> i think the simplest explanation is the most likely one here...

Well, you know, i go where the brave dare not tread. >> bless you. >> but look at the numbers. as i said, all throughout, when i talked to mcauliffe people, they said this was a two point race, all in the last few weeks. they put 100% of their money, cuccinelli. he was finally in the last week on obama care. everybody was talking about obama care. the race finished at 3%. what i am saying is you asked me about lessons for 2014. if republicans think they can get on this obama care kick and win in...

Danger in conservatives assuming everything that happened was an accident. >> that there is nothing to learn from all this. it would be easy to just write this off as bad luck. the bob mcdonnell gifts scandal, a controversial running mate made the e.w. jackson, a libertarian candidate who some believe played a role. he tried to go in there against obama care, it was too little, too late. >> i think in retrospect as we look back, two things mattered. the government shutdown obviously mattered. lo...

Voters in virginia, look we got to look at virginia. so goes virginia, so goes the nation. they are ticked off at democrats about the rollout of health care. you cant look at whatched in virginia if you are a democrat and not sit there and panic. i talked to a bunch last night. they are ecstatic they survived. they sit there and say another week of health care and this could have gone the other way. >> be i the way, there will be major finger pointing this, mo. could, republicans walked away fro...

This event? >> he sent us a picture right before. >> one picture pre-bris. i wont apologize, lets see what happened in virginia last night. >> all right. we have some things to talk about. in virginia, ken cuccinelli says the results proved republican groups proved they missed an opportunity to win. >> by actually nominating the right guy. good point, ken. >> adding they should have stepped up their support last month. cuccinelli said voters sent a strong signal about obama care while mcauliffeb...

The nomination. there is still a mindset that refuses to accept that virginia is changing and the demographics are changing. >> thats what im saying. >> so you now need to set up in the primary your about to run that general election campaign. >> right. >> you just cant assume and launch, you know, a hard charging conservative when you know you got a northern virginia weight around your neck. >> you cant do that if you have a convention. >> thats my point. the classic example is tom davis. tom d...