. >> david sirota. >> i think that's right. the republican party is facing a real electability problem. to win a republican primary, you have to make peace with the tea party. and to make peace with the tea party you have to take positions that will make it harder for you to be elected. that's not a problem for gerrymandered districts for people running in the united states congress. but that is a problem in states like virginia where there is a very competitive election. >> let'let's go from the squeakn virginia to new jersey where there was a landslide. there was a statement, break that out for us and what you think that means for chris christie and the election in general. >> the first you didn't have a real quality democratic candidate in there. christie didn't get necessarily a free ride. >> you don't see this as an overwhelming endorsement for chris christie? >> hmm, he brought together a nice coalition but his message was very different from some of the other republicans there. he's focused on governing. he's invested in

and david sirota and mark from the "washington post" here in studio. you're following this closely. big referendum issue to help fund and redefine the way public education is funded. it did not succeed. a, were you surprised, and b, what were the the implications? >> i was not surprised. this was a ballot measure that had a lot of outside money coming in from a very anti-public school foundation, the walton family, michael bloomberg, anti-union, against the teachers union. it pore ported to raise revenue but a lot of that money would be earmarked to go into privately administered charter schools. there were sixes about what the ballot measure was, and it didn't succeed. at the same time before we say that colorado was tax adverse there was a tax increase on the ballot to raise taxes on newly legalized marijuana. some might say to fund school grow a massive field of weeds and tax it more. >> what does this mean for education in colorado? >> folks who want to better fund education and services, need to do more. returning tax rates back to the clinton era tax rates performed better tha