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Welcome back to "hardball." for months now we've been watching the growing gap between the establishment republican party and the tea party wings of that party. the tea party types are now the party's dominant force, of course. they have little use for establishment republicans who preach moderation and compromise. well, here is what david brooks wrote in "the new york times" today. quote, it's probably futile to try to change current republicans. it's smarter to build a new wing of the republican party, one that can compete in the northeast and mid-atlantic states, in the upper midwest, along...

Welcome back to "hardball." for months now we've been watching the growing gap between the establishment republican party and the tea party wings of that party. the tea party types are now the party's dominant force, of course. they have little use for establishment republicans who preach moderation and compromise. well, here is what david brooks wrote in "the new york times" today. quote, it's probably futile to try to change current republicans. it's smarter to build a new wing of the republican party, one that can compete in the northeast and mid-atlantic states, in the upper midwest, along...

Welcome back to "hardball." for months now we've been watching the growing gap between the establishment republican party and the tea party wings of that party. the tea party types are now the party's dominant force, of course. they have little use for establishment republicans who preach moderation and compromise. well, here is what david brooks wrote in "the new york times" today. quote, it's probably futile to try to change current republicans. it's smoorter to build a new wing of the republican party, one that can compete in the northeast and mid-atlantic states, in the upper midwest along...

New numbers show a growing gap between republicans and latino voters. in 2004, president bush got 40% of the latino vote, john mccain 31%. this year mitt romney got 27%. in fact, since '92 the percentage of white voters has decreased from 87% to 72%. while at the same time, the percentage of latino voters has steadily grown from 2% to 10%. joining me nbc latino contributor, who is also a fellow at university of texas. and msnbc contributor goldie taylor, who is managing editor of the goldie taylor project. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> if mitt romney had gotten the same perc...

I think one more legacy point i would raise is the president has spoken about doing something about the pressures on the middle class. the growing gap between high-end earners and people getting left behind and that's why he talked about the investments he wants to make in education. one of my great hopes would be that he would be more open to taking risks, getting some flack from the teachers unions and do something about the quality of american schools. that's something that would move my heart. megyn: do you think he's likely to be more bipartisan or will he go more to the left? >> anybody ...