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Electorate in 2008, that was 72% white and 28% nonwhite. that is what this electorate is, which would make it the least wide midterm electorate i think ever. >> and thats fascinating too. because a presidential year with the first african-american candidate nominee in presidential history in a midterm election, thats one of the trends we have been talking about, are democrats going to be able to bring that out? >> another thing on the national exit poll that jumped out at me the favorable rating...

David axelrod, right now in utah of all places, where its a pretty close race if you take a look at whats going on. >> its close in part because there is an independent candidate, evan mcmullin, who is a mormon, former cia agent, and he has become a protest vehicle for particularly mormon voters in the state who are alienated from trump and some of his personal behavior. so i think that makes utah a unique place. but the fact is donald trump is behind or no better than even in every battleground...

Mondale, beating him by ten points. >> boy, did new hampshire come up with a surprising finish tonight. >> harts candidacy collapsed, but his victory exposed weakness in mondale. in november, ronald reagan carried 49 of 50 states. in 2012 mitt romney beat rick santorum, but never recovered from santorums bruising. a populist insurgent is poised to become the latest protest vehicle, pushing hillary clinton to the left and potentially exposing vulnerability that could help republicans in the fall....

In iowa to then go on to new hampshire and stun walter mondale, beating him by ten points. >> boy, did new hampshire come up with a surprising finish tonight. >> harts candidacy collapsed, but his victory exposed weakness in mondale. in november, ronald reagan carried 49 of 50 states. in 2012 mitt romney beat rick santorum, but never recovered from santorums bruising. a populist insurgent is poised to become the latest protest vehicle, pushing hillary clinton to the left and potentially exposing...

Santorum, but never recovered from santorums bruising. a populist insurgent is poised to become the latest protest vehicle, pushing hillary clinton to the left, and potentially exposing vulnerability that could help republicans in the fall. and the democratic presidential candidate senator bernie sanders joins me now. welcome back to "meet the press." let me start with an issue you are going to be dealing with in a few hours. i know youll be flying back from minneapolis to washington for this sp...

Colorado, so im not going to make announcements. should they be making broad announcements? >> hundreds a year. >> i will say generally when elected officials pursue advance of an agenda, there is push-back. even when the public likes what is happening. theyre not always, they dont always approve of sort of the speed of it or the extent of it and given sort of economic conditions around the country, there is sort of like a generalized frustration with that. >> that has been the republican -- >> ...

With tea party republicans helping the gop take the house a year later. this offyear election probably not offering the same kind of prophecy. alex bag -- your reaction to the news out of new jersey, steve? >> shocked. its going to be a late night in new jersey because were going to have to wait until mercer county comes in. the interesting thing here is to think back four years a to how chris christie got in that position anyway. christies re-election over the inge couple bent, it had everythin...

And i think thats especially interesting, because cuccinelli isnt actually that much more conservative than bob mcdonnell, who won pretty soundly four years ago. hes become unpopular because of some influence peddling scandals, but thats not really related to his social conservatism, but mcdonnell seems like this suburban, business-oriented conservative when you see him on television and youre another modern voter, he doesnt look like a fire breather, where cuccinelli comes off as a bible thumpe...

Washington, d.c. that all mcauliffe had to do was be a warm body that those people didnt hate and he could win the election. and i think thats especially interesting, because cuccinelli isnt actually that much more conservative than bob mcdonnell, who won pretty soundly four years ago. hes become unpopular because of some influence peddling scandals, but thats not really related to his social conservatism, but mcdonnell seems like this suburban, business-orient eed conservativ when you see him o...

Conservatism a bad name, and because it had a bad name, it gave rise and made people susceptible to obama. >> hence the tea party. >> what they decided to go was go extremely far to the right. you had a two-front war, one against obama or one against any that strays from ideology. mitt romney can embrace the ideology that the republican party embraced post-2008, which is poisonous to an election. paul ryan budget, theyre not running on the paul ryan budget. i dont know why they put him on the ti...