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cafe. and official, a few hours ago, mitt romney, 30,015 votes. santorum om eight votes behind, and both candidates coming out to speak before the final votes came in last night. romney moved on. his eyes on the big prize. take a listen. >> you are working, i am working and we're all working together because of our passion for this country and a concern led by a president who may be a nice guy but just is over his head, and i look at his campaign -- you know, four years ago tonight he was giving a victory celebration speech here in des moines, and he'd been going across the state mak...

And if he made a little comment about don't complain so much, very few people are going -- >> i'm not getting anywhere with you. alex, isn't it better for an african-american politician who represents in my cases an african-american district, on the left, if you will, poorer people than the average in many cases, to be tougher on the president? it doesn't hurt her a bit to be a little tougher and to his left. >> no, it doesn't. and look, chris, to be fair, look what's happened to the black community in america. we talk about jobs in this country. black unemployment is at near-historic highs. y...

>> if anybody in the base reading that speech, hearing that speech, and the full context would walk out saying, yeah, that's the obama i want. and if he made a little comment about don't complain so much, very few people are going -- >> i'm not getting anywhere with you. alex, isn't it better for an african-american politician who represents in my cases an african-american district, on the left, if you will, poorer people than the average in many cases, to be tougher on the president? it doesn't hurt her a bit to be a little tougher and to his left. >> no, it doesn't. and look, chris, to be fa...

They're all politicians. the president's a politician, maxine waters, the congresswoman, is a politician. she's saying what will sell well with who she's talking to. the base who may be upset with the president. >> if anybody in the base reading that speech, hearing that speech, and the full context would walk out saying, yeah, that's the obama i want. and if he made a little comment about don't complain so much, very few people are going -- >> i'm not getting anywhere with you. alex, isn't it better for an african-american politician who represents in my cases an african-american district, on...

Problem with that scenario is that the way that layoffs are conducted normally is by what's called lifo, last in, first out. the last teacher hired has to be the first teacher fired regardless of their performance. so what you end up with is a situation like teachers that i met last week in nevada, where somebody had just been voted teacher of the year in their school, and then they got handed a pink slip. so it really doesn't make send for kids whatsoever. and we're really -- >> you want to lay off teachers that are not performing well, not necessarily the youngest teacher just coming in and ...