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The remaining vote to win . romney almost did you and can't. and if this candidate in this economy against this opponent couldn't win with the electorate no one can. they need to stop running in the face of the demographics and appeal to them. and revise the provision in order to reach that vote. >> the popular vote is 54 million people voted for mitt romney. that is with florida still in the balance. romney gets 54 million. electoral it was 303 to 206. dick, stick around and got more to talk to you about. the president said he's ready to reach across the aisle.

You will hate the 113th. doesn't look like anything's going to get better. i would just say that you look across the electoral wins if you look across the house and senate, pick-ups it is really hard to make a lot of sense of it. there were tea party candidates pushed out. many were kept. there were plenty of blue dog democrats who lost their seats. they were voted out. they retired. they knew they couldn't win. that caucus down to 12 or 15. and for as much talk as there's been about the gop moving too farright, to appeal in a national election to the middle i think democrats might be in dange...

Himself they couldn't win. the rethinking of how do we stand up to our party and bring them to the center on something to your point, we did have those new ideas. that's how we built the coalition of success es around the country, elected an alan west and -- >> well but that the party. >> obama pelosi and reid. alance the budget. >> you're talking macro. i'm talking micro. i'm talking on the ground in neighborhoods, there's a reason why my was to go to harlem in harlem election as natioe to that was, why are you in harlem? that's where the voters core effort by the national party was to the st...

The conventional paths are tough because if you take ohio away, as i showed, and that's in the obama column, then he has all sorts of other problems to get to 270 and there is a necessity to find these states. and, by the way, folks, when i'm doing this, i'm not saying this is where nbc says the race is right now. i'm going through scenarios so don't overreact on twitter. i know you like to do that. one final point about the expanded battleground state maps f. romney comes up short and ohio proves to be the critical state and they didn't have any other path to 270 will they look back six month...

Side and that did the difference, basically. >> huckabee: so you were a part of whatu was often called the blue dog democrats. conservative were areas. >> yes. >> huckabee: i guess by republican standards, a moderate, by democratic standards, ridiculously conservative. is there more place for a conservative democrat in the party any more? >> i hope there's a place on both sides. it's not just the democrats. if you look at what the republicans did in 2010 with internet candidate seats that they easily would have won including maybe nevada, they nominated candidates that couldn't win. theyb a de...