democrats need to be fielding in order to be competitive. >> obviously in that casey personally supported a fellow named tom per i ollie low in the democratic primary. the people in the democratic primary thought otherwise. our job now is to come together to defeat republicans and to move this country in a very different way. >> you talked about this being a referendum on the president. in virginia white working class voters in rural areas again voted overwhelmingly for republicans. are democrats doing enough to reach out to those voters? >> i think we've got to move forward on all fronts. in other words, this is not black versus white versus latino. the african-american community, latino kmoont have particular, very legitimate needs that have to be addressed. but every working person in this country is concerned about the outsource of jobs to mexico and