north carolina, the economy had a big impact. and also three out of five of voters said they would want some or all of the health-care law appealed. you see mitt romney on top in north carolina. he gets that battleground state. in a virginia, and 2008, obama the first democratic president to win. in 40 years. moving on to new hampshire. new hampshire from independents make up 45% of the electorate. president obama came out on top, a 52% to 47%. all of these results can be found on our web site at c- span.org. host: obama hits historic high with hispanics, winning 71%. he won 71% of the hispanic vote, the largest margin of victory with latinos in history. and politic of this morning, obama's re-election, 12 takeaways. number 1, 2008 was not a drill. for months, republicans have been working under the assumption that a bad economy would combine with an ebbing of the electorate that gave obama a victory in 2008. white voters would represent a higher portion of the electorate, black voters would never turn out again in such numbers a

you had a caller from north carolina and she said the governor from north carolina, she thinks that he's a breath of fresh air. but i disagree with her. first, beverly perdue, the governor, she did not do a better job, but she had the deck stacked against her because the republicans were trying to turn north carolina into the way things were 30 years or 40 years ago. what i mean is they cut $1 billion from education in north carolina. the republicans did that. people should be aware of who they vote for. the guy who just got elected for the governor of north carolina, he's not going to do anything, because his constituents, supposed to be all of the voters, but he is going to represent special interest. a caller said people need to do their homework. i agree with that 100%, but i cannot vote for a republican. i have not seen a republican yet that i could vote for. democrats are not perfect. the problem the president has had with democrats, you have some blue dog democrats that don't vote like they should vote on party lines. you might as well say they are republicans. then theyou have re

host: mike from north carolina, good morning. caller: i want to register and in phatic and strong disagreement to the caller who called in and said "religion and should be kept in the home." there are lots of religions. sports is a religion. the people who hoard money is a religion. the're just trying to say judeo-christian ethic is what he once kept in the home. barack obama can prance around as "protestants" but his religion can really be found at the church he went in chicago. i do not think jesus would vote for anybody, but his teachings would lead him to vote for romney, not because he's better than anyone else, but because he follows the teachings of christ. and what i feel obama is doing. host: thank you for the call. guest: the degree to which people bring their religion to bear, i would just reiterate that many americans seem to make a distinction between too much intermingling of organized religion and organized politics. many people say would be inappropriate for clergy to endorse candidates from the pulpit. people are

it was also important in north north carolina. for a while, we have moved north carolina off of our battleground list because it seemed like the public opinion polls were suggesting that the republicans had a fairly strong lead, but as the early vote came in, early vote has been very similar to 2008 in which president obama very narrowly won the state so we move to north carolina back into the inplay category. host: we're looking at the map on an ipad. what interactive features would you have for your viewers lag at this map? guest: well, i think the most attractive feature is for people coming to the map on our website, latimes.com, is that as with many interactive maps and the ones we've done in previous years, you can play around with it. and you can make your own predictions of how you think those key states are going to fall. we find that a lot of users like to do that. it's particularly attractive feature. host: so david lawsuiter, as you look at this day, what personally when it comes to these states are you watching for? >

host: deena in north carolina. we're going to take a break from our discussion regarding the president's claims that he has a mandate on taxing the rich to talk about another story in the papers this morning. the headline in the "financial times" weekend edition, petraeus resigns from c.i.a. over affair. joining us to talk to us about the story on the phone is the white house reporter for politico. here to talk to us more about the resignation, josh, welcome to the program. so, tell us, how did this whole story break? it came about fairly quickly after some discussion or some rumors started circulating early in the morning yesterday that general petraeus might have been on his way out. guest: yeah, we heard -- the first i heard of it were some somewhat sketchy reports on msnbc yesterday with andrea mitchell saying that petraeus was involved in some, you know, fairly weighty discussions about his future with the white house and that his future status was not entirely clear. at that point, what people thought was tha

also in north carolina, the margin is 400 votes in a race with mike macentire. another is inlflorid awhere allen west is behind by 2400 votes. i think c-span viewers are familiar with him and knows he is not somebody that gives up easily. host: what would be the biggest upset from your perspective from the stresses that have not been called? guest: i think the biggest upset would be the race in arizona's second district which is where ron barber is the incumbent. host: that is the aide to former congressman gabby gifford. guest: this was her former seat. he won a special election easily over another candidate. republicans got a better candidate for the november election. she is currently ahead. her lead is narrowing. i think democrats feel pretty good about when all of the ballots are counted that he will end up winning. she is currently ahead by a small margin. host: give us a quick update on the louisiana race that will not be decided until december. guest: that is basically a runoff in louisiana between two members. he faces jeff landry, who is a freshmen. it

he's got strong support on the north carolina border. he is a very conservative republican. he is running as the constitution candidate because he thinks mitt romney and the republicans are too liberal on immigration and other issues. how many votes will begin? i don't have a clue. he shows up in polls at 1% or 2%, but people tend to respond to polls more favorably to third-party candidates than they act on election day and it is behavior on election day that matters. if virginia turns out to be 10,000 votes between romney and obama and virgil goode its 25,000 votes, you could make the argument he might have cost mitt romney the state. but otherwise i doubt it. and there is a liberal candidate, jill stein, the green party candidate. i doubt she gets a very much support. >> a few minutes left with our guest larry sabato -- host: a few minutes left for our guests larry sabato. hi, rose. caller: i am so glad to get on to talk with you. i have issues if i could take a little time. it is called the koch brothers issues. there was a national geographic documentary and i am quoting

host: ken, thanks for the call from north carolina. in a couple of minutes we'll turn to the issue of immigration and be joined by former ceo of kellogg and the george w. bush administration carlos gutierrez and justin reuben was a one of the people from moveon.org. c-span radio studio. good morning. >> good morning. you're right. fiscal cliff is one of the issues talked about on network t.v. talk shows including the situation in the middle east and national security issues and you can hear all those shows re-aired beginning at noon with nbc's meet the press. welcome lindsay grahm. member of the senate arms service and senate intelligence chair. diane feinstein and republican representative. hear abc this week re-aired. yesterday includes nancy pelosi and homeland security chair. republican peter king as well as armed services committee chairman, karl eleven. hear fox news sunday. chris wallace sits down with the vice-chairman of the senate committee and senator joe lieberman of homeland security and republican government force bobby g

lesley ann north carolina -- in north carolina. caller: neither one of you is going to like my suggestion for all of these taxes. our government is so broke. everyone is saying we need more money. i thinif the taxes go up and the spending cuts come into effect, it is about $500 billion a year. that is about $71 billion a month. we are borrowing $120 billion a month. even if all these taxes go up, and we're still going to be about 79 been -- $79 billion short every month that we will have to borrow to fund [inaudible] we have. i am a true blue republican. i have a 29-year-old daughter. she has two children. i do not want this country, my country to give my child and my two grandkids such a rotten place to live that we are going to end up with that tax. they are never going to be able to move up. i am saving of as much money as i can to give to them. we make $70,000 a year. god's sakes, this is out- of-control. everybody up there, i want to see reform on the tax code for real. host: seth hanlon. guest: our deficits are unsustainable

florida and north carolina have early voting. we do not but we still vote. i do not see what people cannot find the time to vote. host: mitt romney chose not to run for a second term as governor. guest: that would seem to be an easy question but it is not. he was selected as one thing and he left as another. he became basically presidential candidate. if he had changed on those decisions and then decided to run for reelection, i think he would have been defeated. he was out of step with massachusetts. he was not a moderate by the time he left office in january of 2007. had he governed for four years as a minor problem solving pragmatic republican, i think he might have had a chance. the reality changed. so the basic answer is no. it would have been 2006. he became conservative on a whole host of issues. host: patty from washington, hi. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i would like to ask if how brian mooney votes. guest: i would not tell you but i am independent. i voted for republicans and democrats. and i will not ask who you will vote f

our next call comes from north carolina. james, for waiting. he is gone away. let's go to our call on our democrats line from florida. go ahead. caller: you can help me with this. the caucasian woman and also blacks -- it took us a long time. until we were even in the position to vote. that basically means the caucasian male, he was in charge of everything. so he set the stage every day. ok. now -- we lack education. you lack a whole lot of education. and we are not ready or prepared to work with the caucasian man who was ready to deal with the situation. host: i am not exactly sure the point you are trying to make. caller: i am going to get to it. now edes, we are in a worse situation. how can they effectively do something when the caucasian man had everything from the beginning and he was dealing with that? host: we are going to leave it there. in a system that has been evolving for the past 150, 200 years, how can this millennial generation, nick toiano, make a change that perhaps our last caller was making reference to. guest: this country was founded on co

host: the next call, north carolina, republican line. caller: good morning. let me get this right. thear as i'm concerned, people in washington have no idea what is going on. they all have no common sense. they all sit there and try to put stuff into it and it costs us more. everything they do -- they sign something in the office they don't even know about the whole thing. i don't sign a contract or nothing unless i know what is in it. i don't understand how you guys do that. and i don't understand how you take something that you're trying to pass and put 16 other things into it. it would be so much easier if you would pass one thing at a time, instead of trying to pass 16 things at a time. i did have some other things, but i just cannot go into it right now. host: let's get david walker's response. guest: i am not an elected official. i am not part of the problem. i am trying to be part of the solution. i agree with the thrust of what you're saying. i believe washington is out of touch and out of control. i believe one of the reasons it is that way is because were dominated by som

this from "the hill" newspaper -- beverly from north carolina on our democrats' line. who is best equipped to reach across the aisle? caller: of course, it is president obama. everything that the other guy said before you had a commercial is true. mitt romney is a joke. if the same republicans come back into congress and do the same things they have done before in the house particularly we only have two years to get rid of every one of them. i hope they all go. god bless america. bye. host: three more articles and then we are going to switch topics. this is the lead story on "daily caller" this morning. two women say they were paid for sex. he is divorced and single. "washington times" -- this is senators mccain, graham, and ron johnson. they have five questions for the president. question number two -- question three -- question four -- and finally question five -- that again is an op-ed this morning and "the washington times." finally this about ballot initiatives in "the washington times." 176 initiatives on the ballot. national flood insurance is our topic for the

john edwards came from north carolina and did not contribute anything to the state of north carolina and our welfare. i saw barack obama go to the u.s. senate and do exactly what john edwards did, and that will immediately start campaigning to be present. i believe our federal legislators are there to take care of federal business and our state legislatures, to be in our -- federal legislators ought to be down in our state, sending dollars to the state, and not sending them to the federal government to have federal legislators play a large game of twister to get the best position. host: bob cusack? guest: the caller mentioned term limits, and it was something mitt romney embraced, and the republicans on capitol hill have not embraced that, and neither have the democrats. it was talked about in the newt gingrich era, but both republicans and democrats are not fond of term limits. there is an argument against it, and that is when members get here, they promised to term- limit themselves, and when they get here they do not know how to legislate, they do not know where the bathrooms are,

north carolina. go ahead. caller: my problem with all of this is it seems like they are trying to get to something else, and they are just weaseling to get to something else. host: what do you think they are trying to get to? caller: if she went out there with the information that was given to her, and john mccain test not have the common sense to know that -- does not have the common sense to know that it was not her information but the information given to her, i would want to talk to the person that gave her the information. i would want to talk to the people that gave her the information. host: is that going to happen, michael hirsch? guest: that is going to be part of the investigations. why did the intelligence community come to the conclusions they came to, which was erroneous, that there was a protest there, and why did the emphasize the protest over an organized attack? why was there in this meeting? we know a little bit about the context. this was september 11. a day where you might get a higher numb

joe in north carolina. caller: good morning. i have a problem with this country. it gives china money then borrows money from china. it is money to saudi arabia. we give countries all this money and do not take care of our own. you have to take care of your own household. don't give a grant money about poi in hawaii. this is ridiculous. guest: thank you for your question. there's a lot i agree with. it is import how we get into the deficit situation. many viewers will remember when bill clinton left office this country had a surplus. we went to war in iran and afghanistan. bush and others decided not to pay for the war. that adds to the deficit. if you give a huge tax breaks, that adds to the deficit. if there is a recession, less revenue is coming in to the government. revenue is the lowest in six years. that is how we are where we are. we have to do this in a way that is fair, not on the backs of people that are working 60 or 70 hours a week and not on the backs of children by cutting their health insurance program and not on the backs of senior citizens. the st

host: charles, on our line for democrats, north carolina. caller: they say raising taxes on the rich will not benefit. but it will. integrated 23 million jobs. -- it created 23 million jobs. now, if we keep the tax cuts on the wealthy, that is when to cost us even more money. and this thing about the debt, that is a long-term thing. that is not a big issue. you know the fiscal cliff, you still have time to negotiate to lower the deal. the american people have spoken. host: thank you. nancy cook, does the president have a mandate to move us forward? guest: yes. i think he has america on his side. i think the administration thinks america is on his side. i think there is a sense that the democrats managed to maintain control of the senate pedometer democrats won at the white house. i think there's a feeling among democrats that they wanted these things, they should be able to put these things into place that they campaigned on which is largely taxing the rich. the house republicans feel like they also have a mandate, they kept their power, the

we will go first to david on our line for democrats, north carolina. caller: good morning. i would like to know how the republican party got known for being job creators when the facts are more jobs have been created in this country under democratic administrations? guest: that is a good question. i think the issue is who speaks to the issues of the job creators out there. that is what both parties are vying for. if you look back at the dinner of the last 50 years, more jobs have been created under democratic presidents and under republican presidents. if you were to look back in the 1990's, you would see a huge boom in the job creation under president clinton. partly because he came out of -- he came president out of a recession. and had either the good fortune of overseeing the internet boom. and that created a lot of jobs, a lot of those were lost, some were lost after president clinton left office in 2001. people who look at this, and when you are trying to assess which party would be better for job creation, everyone has are on a measure. people will look at the republ

bob in north carolina on are democrats' line. you are up next. caller: i just think it is going to be better coming up this next time because i believe obama it did need a second chance. i voted for him. i am a native american and i lived on a cherokee indian reservation. we have to balance our budget. our leaders serve four years just like the president does. we make our budget work. if we don't have the money, we don't do it. that is all i got to tell you. host: jacqueline pata is going to be on later in this program. how would you describe the conditions where you live? caller: we have a heritage casino down here and it does a lot for us. we send all of our kids to college. we pay for it all. they can go to college anywhere in the united states. host: indian gaming has helped urination? caller: very much. host: are independent line, you are up next. what is your optimism level? caller: i am not optimistic. indian gaming is not very good for our nation. hispanics -- i don't know why they are considered a minority. they work really hard. we have

north carolina's seventh district. called on monday was arizona ninth district. so, that is from "the washington times" this morning. the headline, "to west allen, west." he is refusing to concede the house reelection battle. six days later. that is "the washington times" with an update. front royal, virginia, republican, let me go back to you. go ahead. caller: my thought is that i am a republican, but also an american. america voted for obama. we need to pull together as a country. all of the people in the congress and the senate need to pull together and think about what all of the american people need and what is good for this country. if that means that right now republicans have to been in a little bit, they have to do it and fix this budget so that we can move forward as a country. host: taxing the wealthiest americans, is that enough? caller: now, it is not, but we have to make a move forward, working together, and if we do not stop fighting and work together, we will not do anything. host: so, does that mean the democrats, also, leading -- leaning forwar

we also want to take you to anita, chapel hill, north carolina. caller: i was listening to your caller before may, he is absolutely right. i am muslim, very strict about things, and i think that people have a right to not practice religion here. they have a right to do things the way they feel comfortable doing it, which is called secular or religious thinking. they have the right in this country not to follow religious law. for him to feel that he needed to resign over a scandal, i do not think that is proper when he does not have to follow religious thinking about sex in this country. host: thank you for the call this morning. here is the editorial from "usa today." host: in, want to get your thoughts this morning on the democratic line. -- diane, want to get your thoughts this morning on the democratic line. caller: i went to school with one of my friends in coronado, california. wondering if you are related to anyone from connecticut. host: not sure. what are your thoughts about the general's resignation? caller: let me tell you something, we

host: this on twitter -- our next caller is scary, a republican in fayetteville, north carolina -- is gary in fayetteville. i think he's not with us. let's go to kingston, washington, rsose. caller: hi. thank you. this cliff thing is a democrat idea. i don't think the republicans should give in. let the democrats to give in for a change. the republicans should hold back. if we have to go over the cliff, it is not the republicans taking us over the cliff. it is the democrats. we have a democratic president and a democratic senate. they are the ones -- look at all the stuff that got done in the senate. all year we paid their salaries and we did not get nothing from it. thank you. host: arnold tweets -- the white house has put out a report called "the middle class ."x cuts let's go to mary in illinois and joining us to talk about republican flexibility on the anti-tax pledge. caller: good morning. i would like to talk about how grover norquist has been the target of the democrats. let's talk about senator dick durbin and president obama's pledged to richard trumka and randi weingarten ab

this from the washington times -- i want to go now to militants from edmonton, north carolina, on our independent line. -- to milton. how are you prepared for the possible ramifications of going off the fiscal cliff? caller: hi, good morning. i am preparing by checking the backgrounds of what is really causing the problem. a few years ago in texas the bush boys were on the board of the silverado bank which went belly up. they then paid off the tax bill and raise the taxes on everybody in america. following that, the new york stock exchange went belly up and the taxes were increased to cover that, too. now we have another flip-flop going on about going over the fiscal cliff. we need to go back and figure out where it started, which was in texas with that silverado bank that started the rko. from let's go to dave pennsylvania on the democratic line. thanks for calling. caller: yes. i have a lot of confidence in the economy. i am in southwest pennsylvania, south of pittsburg. in the last three and a half years we have had 3000 national gas wells drilled. the gas is here right now. a mult

host: from north carolina, and then the line. caller: thank you for taking my call. this is interesting. this past summer, i had issues with a land line and a cell phone. both of them in or out of service. i had a local utility bill that i did not pay because i never received something even in snail mail. when i went to a council meeting to see if they would take off some of the charges because i have never been late before, they said it some backing from at&t in my case. when i attempted to do that, i found out i had to have to subpoena at&t so they could say, she had some issues. i was surprised i had to go through that just to do a simple search that, yes she had problems. here's the proof. this is where you can give to your utility. second question. when a person has their computer infected and they have the ability to do random searches, can they give us a search for a while and comes on people's computer? i will take my response off line. guest: usually, if it is your own records, the phone company should be allowed to give those to you without a subpoena. you

david in north carolina. independent line. caller: the reason i am calling, and i want to save the american people, let's take the politics out of this thing. everyone is suffering. i have relatives in new jersey and new york. everyone is talking about gov. christie helping president obama get reelected and things like this. we do not need this now. too many people are suffering. we need to pray to god and thank them for people like fema so we can help these people overcome. that is all i want to say. stop passing the buck. that is the work of god, not obama, not president bush. let's get together and help the people in new jersey and new york over, this tragedy. thank you for any comments you have. thank you. host: a story in the new york times." how do relationships come into play when we're talking about federal funding of looking at the governors and congressional delegation working with others -- their peers? how did it play out? relationship tier are fascinating. -- guest: relationships here are fascinating. these are pe

he did not lose in north carolina by much. host: were the polls wrong? guest: from my perspective there was too much attention to national polls. i think we have become a victim of posters. i blame those of us in the media for paying too much attention. we do not vote the way. we know that. every night on the news, what led the news, what was the first question i was asked. what do you think about the latest gallup poll. i have talked to pollsters who say that gallup ought to be drummed out of business. they give everybody a bad name. nate silver, he got a lot of flak but he got it right. host: amy is on the phone from georgia. caller: good morning. i noticed throughout the campaigning that the republican politicians seemed to have complete contempt for the republican voter. they treated them as if they were low in formation, gullible, would fall for anything the, believe anything. when romney went to ohio and told a horrible embarrassing lie about jeep going to china. that tells me they feel the republican voter is somebody who can be led by the nose an

whether it be the caller with his perspective or whether it be the supporter from north carolina that called in. and we will continue to have that conversation. so we understand that the goal here is to really kind of continue to establish the common human bond with individuals like the caller from new york. at the end of the day, i can assure him that i want nothing more for my family or my future than he wants for his. i don't want anything different. i don't want anything strange or uncommon. we share basic human values together. and that's nothing more than the ability to love and commit to our significant other and to have american society and american law recognize and protect our families. there really is no difference in between what gay and lesbian americans want for themselves and what straight couples have right now. host: so why not civil unions? >> it's a very different institution, it is a second class institution. civil unions are ok in some states. they were definitely part of the journey towards marriage. i have a great deal of respect for the states that passed those