In a NPR exit interview with Steve Inskeep, President Barack Obama said in his post-White House life he plans to develop “a whole new generation” of Democratic talent. Partial transcript as follows: INSKEEP: Were Democrats failing to do that at every level because your party has lost the majority of races at almost every level at this point? OBAMA: Well, you know, I think that we haven’t done it as well as we need to. For example, we know that the Republicans, funded through organizations like the Koch brothers, have been very systematic at building from the ground up and communicating to state legislators and financing school board races and public utility commission races, and, you know, I am a proud Democrat, but I do think that we have a bias towards national issues and international issues, and as a consequence I think we’ve ceded too much territory. And I take some responsibility for that. You know, when I came into office, um, you know, we were just putting out fires. We were in a huge crisis situation. And so a lot of the organizing work that we did during the campaign, we started to see right away didn’t immediately