minor adjustments, a better candidate in way, better campaigning, maybe not a better candidate, we could have won the white house. as kayleigh makes a very good point, i mean, you went to these states, michigans of the world, there were districts that swung hard from obama to trump. is there a sense they're missing the writing on the wall here? >> i think kayleigh makes a point, yes, people out there did feel disaffected. i don't think secretary clinton did a good job always of making the case for continuing president obama's policies. where i disagree with kayleigh is there's only one metric. those metrics you just ticked off. stock market is almost at 20,000. the youth re-unemployment is under 5%. president obama has a 56% approval rating. you know, if the question is do democrats have problems and does president obama have a problem not having had coattails? yes, if the question was if he had run, could he have won? yes. >> i want to ask your view on this, angela, as well. speaking with david axelrod, he made the point that there were other mistakes from his point of view, identity politics, right,