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mrp in the exit polls by seven points, 51% to 44%. let's get the answers from howard feinmann and joe williams. what went wrong for democrats last night? look at what they told pollsters about elections. 60% responded they're only appropriate in cases of actual official misconduct and abuse of office. look at another interesting number for the exit polls. unions were not as monolithics and some thought. what do you make of those two numbers? >> first of all, chris, we have to be careful in interpreting wisconsin. i just talked to steve law, the big independent spending group that was...

play along at home. if you want the show, at least the most recent o round show that 94% of the time the person who raises the most money wins. there is your over/under, if you will, on the great electoral auction of 2012. and the overpaid last night as it has 94% of the time. let's bring in the political director mark murray. mark, do you find that analysis too simple? >> dylan, having a lot of money and having more than your opponent always helps in contest. but it is not the only thing. if money were the only requirement to be able to win, howard dean would have won the democratic...

tom barrett gets 46%. here is some from both men. >> we tell wisconsin, we tell our country and the people across the globe. voters want leaders who stand up and make the tough decisions. there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures. [cheers and applause] >> this has been the most amazing experience of our lives. what we have seen over the last 16 months, is question have seen this democracy come alive. i was simply amazed at the energy, the...

the lessons of wisconsin, and i think what you focused on, the recall -- he was a better candidate than tom barrett. the democrats put up the same guy that got beat by him last time. and what was bigger was the money from the outside. it played in specific ways in wisconsin that may not be repeated elsewhere. that's the good news. the bad news is the republicans found a wedge issue here. they can divide what's left of the labor movement, the public employee unions and nonpublic employee unions, and if they focus on benefits that public employee unions get as opposed to collective bar...

president one day. >> what are the intangibles. >> the one thing that was the nature of the recall, when you dig down into the exit polls, there is a big concern by wisconsin voters that recall went too far. 60% said that a recall should only be when there was official misconduct. and another 10% said that recalls should never end up occurring. so that was a big hurdle or organized labor and for tom barrett. not o only did they have to say, look, i'm better than this guy, but you need to fire scott walker two years before he is up for reelection in 2014. >> let's talk exit polls. whi...