x lindsey graham   Set Clip Length:  should perhaps stop using
the word "mandates." it wasn't terribly long ago that ronald
reagan won 49 states. that's a mandate. it's unthinkable that
any candidate can win anywhere close to that. obama won a pretty
impressive victory even without a serious third party candidate,
he did not get 51% of the popular vote. he won 26 states to
romney's 24 states. we'll see time after time very, very close
elections. we need to rethink the negotiations of mandates and
say this person won the presidency. they need to go forward with
that agenda. >> what about the republicans? are they going to do
a big rethink here? >> yes, and more than one. it was
interesting that the republican governors happened to be meeting
this week in las vegas when this news about the interesting
comments that romney made to his donors that we just saw and the
republican governors, bobby jindal of louisiana did not miss
five seconds before they really denounced what romney was
saying. the republicans have