democratic pollster and strategist and also stan greenberg, democratic pollster and author of "it's theclass, stupid." stan, let's start with you. you've analyzed the polling on how unmarried women voted. you put out a new report on thursday. i think we can put up some of the information. 67% voted for president obama, 31% for governor romney. among married women. why were unmarried women so much more supported of the president? >> it's fair to say that they produced this kind of victor. there's a lot of things that went into this election but being one in four voters and their obama vote held up from 2008, it did not drop where obama got 53%. all of the drops came with married. no, unmarried women, you know, who were hard hit by the economy and we're in a country where a majority of the households are unmarried. and unmarried women are kind of the vanguard of that and express in support of president obama who represent their values better, responded on the economy, and protected medicare. >> and why distinguish between unmarried and married? how do you campaign between these two groups

when democracy course stan greenberg released a poll today, a national poll, showed the president ahead by four. it's hard to measure enthusiasm but the thing i looked for in that poll was young voters. that's where enthusiasm matters the most to me. i've seen no data or anecdotes that suggest african americans are going to drop off in enthusiasm or that latinos will but young people, that's my worry on enthusiasm. in greenberg's poll, he only had young people as 15% of the electorate, 17% in 2008 and still has the president up by four. so you have some diminution if you're a democrat, you're worried about diminution of the youth vote. >> let's take a quick break. we got a lot ahead. we are trying to follow any candidates who are making speeches in this hour or the 10:00 hour. we will bring them to you live. thanks everyone. one of the wild cards that could have an impact on the election is super storm sandy. will voters in ravaged areas be able to cast votes tomorrow? officials are scrambling to try to make it easier. we'll take a look at that ahead. we'rwith questions fromtump sombing

i'm going to start with.or stan greenberg, with literally known for decades.e worked on the campaigns of bill clinton and tony blair, ehud barak, nelson mandela and others. he's really known as the leading pollster in the world in terms of international campaign. i will also say he started to send the visa quota wishes e-mails days ago, where he was predicting with great boastfulness how sure he wasn't a great big obama the jury at how poorly the election was going to be called. so congratulations to stand for your accuracy. i was watching the video to you and james carville resending out to anyone and everyone willing to listen to you about how sure you were that obama was going to have a big night. so why do we start with you, stand, in terms of virtue some what happened, why it happened and what that means for america. [inaudible] >> thank you, jennifer. ralph reed has just come in. delighted to be on a panel with him and to share our observations this morning. a moment of silence -- no. i will proceed. [laughter] i'm impressed. 695% of the dio. so the scor

under way to hear from the faith and freedom coalition ralph reed and the democratic pollster stan greenbergnderway posted by laszlo strategies. also coming up later today senate majority leader harry reid will be holding a news conference discussing some of the results. democrats as you know maintain control of the senate holding on to the seats in missouri and picking of seats in indiana, massachusetts. we will have majority leader remarks live on the companion network this afternoon. also house speaker john boehner will address reporters today at the capitol. expected to talk of the so-called fiscal cliff. live coverage at 3:30. >> as you can still weak -- see we are still missing a couple speakers on their way. i don't think because the election was so bad that they are not going to show. i do think they will indeed be here. it's a busy morning in the media world come and ralph reid and pinkerton had other appearances that they are on their way. i'm going to start by introducing the speakers one at a time and i had the same question i'm going to ask each of them to start with, which is w

. >> later come here for democratic pollster stan greenberg and wall street at the faith and freedom coalition. at first on a path quite, ann lewis mps contributor, elanor clift. this is two hours. >> good morning and welcome. team at all for being here. i am jennifer laszlo, administrator of september status communication that are not partisan and are honored and delighted to have a terrific set of panels. we have a live audience here is that the capital area per in the rayburn house office building in a hearing room of the foreign affairs committee. i'd like to thank congressman brad sherman for providing they room for us. we can upset whenever congressman berman. i'd like to thank for his service to america to congratulate all congresspeople who ran for office, whether they either won or lost last night. it's an incredible thing to server to be willing to serve. it's a very painful process to go through negative campaigning. very heart of the candidates can the very heart of the families and the american voters away debt of gratitude to all who are willing to serve, whether they w

but also want to thank ralph reed who left earlier, but jim pinkerton and jonathan salant and stan greenberg, thank you for what you did not only on the panel but for your series thinking that you on these topics day in and day out. so on behalf of laszlo strategies, thanks for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> as we leave this discussion, "the associated press" is reporting montana senator jon tester has won reelection beating his republican challenger. also, the ap says wisconsin congressman paul ryan is returning to congress. he said he is looking for to spending some time with his family and then will return to his responsibilities as house and budget committee chair. we will have more postcampaign coverage coming up for you today on c-span networks. in just a moment on c-span, harry reid will hold a news conference discussing election results. democrats maintain control of us in holding onto seats in virginia and missouri, and picking up seats in indiana and massachusetts. senator reid's remarks will be on our companion network c-span in just a couple of moment. house spea

think of the first panel who is with us today but i also want to thank robb but jim pinkerton and stan greenberg for thank you for what you did not only on the panel but you're serious thinking that you do on these topics day in and day out so on behalf of laszlo strategies, thanks for coming. [applause] is a mandate in yesterday's results for us to find a way to work together on the solutions to the challenges that we all face as a nation. it's not one of confrontation with but one of conviction we face a series of tremendous challenges and a great opportunity. the american people want us to work together, republicans want must work together and democrats must work together they want a balanced approach to everything but especially this situation that we have news from capitol hill this afternoon ahead of congress returns next week south dakota senator john thune announced today that he will seek reelection for the chairman of the senate republican conference. the third highest ranking republican position. he served as conference chairman since january of this year and previously served as chai

if you look at the poll greenberg did and i can tell you from my experience with stan, he gives you badws when there's bad news and that poll shows the president with a four-point lead. i think if you look at ohio, it's almost impossible to find anything but a republican sponsored poll that's ever said the president's been ahead. 17,000 interviews over the last ten days in ohio. the president's lead is outside the margin of error, we're going to find out tomorrow and we can stop arguing about it. hopefully, we won't spend weeks in court. i remember 2000 well and 2004. >> as we talk about the racial make-up, victoria, of what the election is going to roll out to be, white voter turnout, 72% estimated in the 2012, or excuse me, white voter turnout, as opposed to the 74% in '08. is the latino make-up in this and the obama campaign going after them, is that going to extend the bleeding? >> and we've been hearing a lot of talk about the latino fire wall and if the poll numbers we've been seeing, we're going to see that latinos are going to hold florida, virginia, nevada and colorado. what we