David Axelrod: “It is a moment that calls for humility if you're the president because you did not win the popular vote.”

I moved on, like many others who simply ignored him.

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.

There's no doubt about that. But I also want to say this. You know, all presidents sort of feed off of perceptions of the person who came before and they want to position against what people found lacking in the person that came before.

The nature of presidential politics is the bar gets raised constantly.