• LAMB: : What time do you get up?

• ROMNEY: Oh, I get up 5:30 to 6:00, typically exercise. I run about three miles on the treadmill these days. I used to do it outside but now on the treadmill I use stationary bike as well, get into the office around 7:30, quarter to 8:00 and then begin meeting with key members of my team.

There may be trips out to different parts of the state and talking to mayors or other leaders. We will have meetings with people on my own team as well as meetings with folks across the aisle and talk to legislative leaders.

The evenings are filled with events welcoming folks to Boston or Massachusetts, but also fundraising. You know, one of the strange things about the new laws on fundraising is that politicians is that politicians spend far more money -- excuse me, far more time worried about money than they ever did before.

When my dad was governor and running for governor, this was something that was done in the first few weeks of the campaign. But now, given the extraordinary labyrinth of laws, you can’t even follow the laws. You can’t follow where they are supposed to lead you.

But you have got these limits and you have got to be out all the time raising money, raising money, and you don’t owe favors to people who write a big check, but you owe favors to people who get 100 other people to write little checks.

And it’s a very ineffective way of financing campaigns. But nonetheless, that’s a big part of what you do in politics, even when you are not running for office, you are always raising money. And that’s unfortunate.