with us now the editor of "the new yorker" david remnick and in washington, d.c.correspondent and political director and host of "the daily rundown" chuck todd. we were just talking about eric erickson and his scathing takedown of mitt romney today. i was talking last week. we had the discussion about how conservatives were telling me offline i can't support romney. i would rather obama win than mitt romney win. and it seems as romney gets stronger in the polls and becomes more inevitable, the more you'll see the conservative base really raising their arms in protest. >> well, i heard you guys talking. it wasn't dissimilar to what we heard with mccain, right? this sort of what's going on. there was a movement on talk radio back then to try to stop mccain and it didn't work. now, part of the fact is you didn't have sort of -- there wasn't a huge echo chamber beyond talk radio to try to do that. you didn't see sort of some of the conservative television guys try to do the same thing with mccain. with romney, i don't know. i mean, it is amazing. he's the weakest inev

and on the other hhnd, i think the current editor, david remnick, is, is in the spirit of the new yorkerly we, i always refer to the naming of, and his editorship as the restoration. >> restoration. >> yeah, because it's brought back, i think, i think he's, you know, a serious guy and, and i think the new yorker is in good shape. it's just a somewhat different place. >> how often are you publishing these days? >> i woull say three or four pieces a year, something like that. >> of your choosing. >> yeah. >> and you don't hang around the office very muuh these &->> no, no i work at home. i started working at home more when, when my ggrls came along, because i was, most of their childhood i was gone one work week out of three so i wwnted to be there... >> yeah. >> ...when i wasn't gone. and, and i kept an office at the new yorker but increasingly it became sort of a storage closet. [laughter] >> stick close to home. >> and, aad now i don't do that. and, and of course now i go in and i don't know most of the peoppe working there because most of them weren't there in 1963. >> most of them pro