was to overlook the fact that we're talking about someone with a record of misogany and racist invective, and so that is what is troubling to a lot of people. that's what makes this election, among other things, very different than others. those good, decent people at least overlooked a very, very sorry record of prejudice. >> dickerson: let's switch to the democratic party and its challenges in the last couple minutes. what has the democratic party learned from this election. what the democratic party has learned is that it needs to win over some chunk or a greater chunk of working-class whites. that's ultimately where this turned. had health care won 50,000 more votes between pennsylvania and michigan and wisconsin, she would be president of the united states. the question is how you go about that. i think the choice, the likely choice of keith ellison as head of the dnc, keith ellison, congressman of minnesota, african american, muslim american, but also a democratic la is giving you a sense of where the party may go in this direction. a commitment to its multiculturalism, a commitmen