Title: GOP chairman on election results

" Since. This. I don't care about ten minutes he didn't mention two words Barack Obama. -- think this is a referendum on and that's their base -- back."

" I don't think it's so much of a referendum on the president. It's certainly is. I think a checkpoint on the policies. I think the people last night in these two states. Took a moment to reflect over the last nine and ten months. So listen to and evaluate how what we're hearing at the national level translates locally. I can tell you as a former state official. When Washington acts we feel it. At the state level when they make decisions we often times have to pay for it at the state level. So you I saw this convergence of national issues and local issues coming together for a lot of these candidates. Where if you take for a health care for example the debate on health care. You -- acute attention to it because. I get my health care through my employer. I just got laid off from my job. So this debate becomes even more important now because I have no job I have no health care. And I wanna know how you mr. McDonald or mr. Christie running for governor are going to help me get my job back. And then I wanna know what you would Washington and going to do to make sure that the burden the tax burden the cost burden. Of that health care does that make it more difficult for me once I get that up to pay the bill. So I thought there was this convergence of these issues that played out at a very interestingly in this campaign. So to that extent I would some would say it's a referendum as it as much as it is a checkpoint by the voters out there saying that means that line this up for myself. And see where this comes out. Certainly the president has put forth policies that are are different. Controversial. And but I think out of the mainstream of where America is. America doesn't want the federal government running -- care."