looked across the promised land. but for this campaign, on this night, we will not cross the river. we didn't lose this race. >> joining me now to discuss is former obama campaign manager jim messina and mark mckinnon, the former adviser to george w. bush and executive producer of "the circus." good evening to both of you gentlemen. jealous of the hat, but that's okay, mark. we'll talk about my hat jealousy later. jim, what's your reaction to how this race played out? >> on one side you have kind of national folks wanting to make this a race between a liberal and a moderate. but those of these were progressive candidates. this was really about political positioning and the winner tonight, who by the way started out 35 points behind and was badly outspent, positioned herself as a supporter of joe biden, as someone who could work together to get things done, and went back to the old axiom that