It is a constant struggle for most public officials between representing average constituents and taking care of the interest groups and wealthy individuals who fund the campaigns. |
It is really freezing a governor's administration. It's very damaging. These scandals always are. |
It says the Republican leadership has accepted the political reality that Katherine Harris will be the GOP candidate for the United States Senate. |
It should have been a blow-away. It wasn't just any congressional race ? it was a race during Bush's summer of sorrow and it came in a state that was ground zero for '04 and possibly will be for '08. |
It splits his base, and it will be endless trouble for him if it goes forward, and I'm sure he won't let it happen. |
It was callous trying to shift the blame to the victim. His entire PR staff should be fired just for that. |
It was really Katrina that triggered this because there was genuine outrage. It opened the floodgates. [The media] saw that the American public was finally willing to listen to criticism of the administration. |
It will be a war between the desire for change and someone completely new and different, and the tendency to pick a stable political figure who won't embarrass the district, again. |
It will be studied as one of the big ones -- an example of how a modest mishap goes completely out of control. |
It won't do any harm because no one will remember by November, but it will raise money,... and that's the key. |
It's a conservative district, but not hard right. I happen to think a Republican will win eventually, but this could be interesting. Francine Busby could end up doing better than anybody expected. |
It's a good thing for Richardson. What other presidential candidate in the Democratic Party would be called upon by an administration in a nonpartisan way to represent American interests in a dangerous place? |
It's a matter of getting people excited and out to vote. Whether the Congress passes a lot of legislation is a separate issue. . . . They can get the electoral issues done just by debating some of the issues. |
It's a show. Maybe in the beginning of a presidency it matters, maybe after something like 9/11 it matters, but generally speaking, it's more of the same. |
It's almost been contempt of Congress -- not legal contempt of Congress, but contempt of Congress by baseball, ... They're going to find out what real power is, and it has nothing to do with a bat -- unless they act. |