leslie sanchez, i want to start with you.ple question: what is the number-one lesson republicans should take from tuesday's election? >> most importantly, the g.o.p. has failed to adjust to the american demographic realignment. and particularly i want to talk about hispanic voters. as you've seen this dramatic rise in the hispanic electorate becoming more politically mobilized, politicized, especially in swing states you have not seen republican candidates capture consistently the amount of support they're going to need. >> brown: reach out to them or change the message or what? >> a combination of both. if you look at the last 40 years republicans have averaged 30 points of the vote. we've had high points with ronald reagan, richard nixon, george w. bush. but those are individual candidates who had strong appeal. richard nixon had a spanish speaking cabinet commission. ronald reagan had the first hispanic cabinet commission and george w. bush did education reform and policy initiatives way in advance. with somebody like gove

leslie sanchez is a republican strategist. she runs the impacto group.tu rothenberg is one of the most respected political analysts in the land. he puts out the rothenberg political reports. anthony salvanto is the cbs news political director. he's the director of elections. anna greenberg is a senior vice president of the democratic polling firm greenberg, quinlan, and roster upon and last but not least our old friend larry sabato, the political guru of the university of virginia center for politics. stewart, let me talk to you. and you i talked last week. >> we did. >> schieffer: you said, don't look at me. i have no idea who is going to win. and this is what you do for a living. right now, how do you think this thing is breaking on this last weekend? >> i think the popular vote looks even or close to even, bob. i think anybody would be crazy to confidently predict how that's going to go. i still think the electoral college is easier for the president to get to 270. it's not impossible for governor romney, but all the pieces have to fit together for hi

university of virginia center for politics, democratic pollster anna greenberg, and republican analyst leslie sanchez of the impacto group. and our own cbs news elections director anthony salvanto. we're coming to the end of the campaign 2012, and we've got it all on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning, again. most of the country is looking forward to election day, or at the least, looking forward to the campaign being over. but in large parts of the northeast, it is still the aftermath of the storm that is in the forefront of many people's thoughts. at least 110 are dead, more than 2 million are still without power. close to 1 million in new york city alone. 80% of new york city subway service has been restored, but it may be days before gas shortages are rer stored and the national guard has been called in to keep order at gas stations. the storm has caused an estimated $20 billion in damages, plus an estimated $50 billion in economic losses to the region. the state of new jersey was hit hardest

leslie sanchez writes about the gop's latino opportunity, in a wall street journal -- that's from this morning. wayne has been hanging on from cleveland. caller: good morning. i don't think the republican party has to change. i agree with the young lady before me. it is the principle of the party that attracts you to the party. the republican party has a messaging problem. one of the things republican party has done is walk away from teaching. if you go back during the reagan era, he was very eloquent at teaching people the principles of the party. if the party goes out and teaches its principles to all the demographics regardless of the demographics and stands by those principles, nobody wants democratic life. why would we go votes for democratic light if we want the real deal? the republicans need to get their principal straight and talk to people about their principles. host: in the post today -- ashley is calling from georgia. caller: good morning. i don't think the republican party needs to change. there's a problem with self entitlement in this country. my grandparents worked for