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Million between 2010 and 2012 in very conservative tea party backed candidates. some of them are great. rubio, rand paul, pat toomey. some were disastrous. todd akin, david murdock and sharron angle. we need to evaluate everything we did. but it also includes, i think, focusing more on quality candidate selection to make sure that we've got really, really good candidates who can win in elections and that we can effectively back when we get into general elections. >> chris, one of the chief complaints i hear from people like steve having to do with the club for growth is that you guys get invol...

And never a good plan in politics, much less just in social conversation -->> in life yeah. i mean but even if you tossed those out you are talking about a senate to otherwise be exactly what it was the day before. >> remarkable. >> i think republicans fall in to a trap looking at when's going on in the senate and don't sense a problem in terms of not just messageing but candidate selection. republicans in that they have lost the candidates the there's a backlash against that and need to find a way to connect with their grassroots and find candidates acceptable to the grass roots and competiti...

Missouri. claire mckaskell has a real race on her hands no matter who the voters pick in the primary today. i think most observers in missouri consider aiken probably her best opponent, the one that would make the race the most competitive. but if steelman or br u.n. er wins she is at this point expected to lose. jenna: if you do look at the polls and we don't dig deep into them on election day there's been a real divide between the three candidates. we also saw in texas that it was such a real tight race there for the primary for a republican representative in that senate race as well. larry ...

There were several seats -- nevada, colorado, delaware -- that the republicans almost certainly would have won had they nominated the more electable candidate for the general election. they chose to go in another direction, and democrats won those three seats. now, again, that's people's constitutional right. jenna: sure. >> they can vote for anybody for any reason -- [laughter] but party leaders, naturally, focus on electability. jenna: well, and that's their job, right? candidate selection. that's what the job is for the party. but why do you think with so many dynamic conservative voices ou...

We'll come back and talk a little bit more about this later. let us go -- you know that's what they're saying! good thing it's romney. a little political tidbit for you as a system we all know and love continues to struggle to actually revive itself in a sense. between 2002 and 2008, an incumbent politician was more likely to die in office than be defeated in a primary election. that is how uncompetitive our competitive democracy has become when it comes to candidate selection. that is one of the reasons behind the launch of the campaign for primary accountability, which is being led in part b...