It's an important event. It's one of those moments in his presidency that people want to remember well and he has to give them an opportunity to do so. |
It's an unadulterated plus for his career. It's attention to an obscure senator who otherwise never would have stood out. |
It's awful. These two races are the worst possible combination ? nasty and dull. It doesn't get any worse. |
It's awfully tough to attack someone who's served and sacrificed as much as she has. |
It's been a very successful term. It's hard to describe it any other way. He came in at a tough time. There was no money. The Republicans had just taken a landslide in the legislature. Things didn't look good. But he worked through the problems and ended up triumphant. It's a storybook ending. I didn't see that coming. Frequently these businessmen governors who've never been elected to anything before, flop. So he's the exception. |
It's completely transparent that he's testing the waters and would very much like to run. He's wanted to run for president for years, and 2008 may be the best opportunity he has. |
It's different in Washington. It's a lot easier to get lost in Washington, even if you're a senator. |
It's good news for Tester and it's good news for Burns. |
It's just a question of who gets out more of their core voters. |
It's permanent now in peoples' minds. It will be in his obituary. |
It's spread pretty widely, at least in the political underground. |
It's the first time we have seen it since Bush became president. |
It's very hard for governors to say they're on their own. Inevitably, there's going to be taxpayer funds involved in their social life because they're being guarded, they don't drive themselves, there's someone driving a limousine. Taxpayer funds are always used in one way or another, and that gives the press an opportunity to cover it. |
It's very likely that Virginia will eventually adopt the two-term governorship. But it won't be in the next few years, as far as I can tell. |
Kerry's great advantage, despite what some people say, is that the threshold is low, ... People who have decided to vote against Bush are looking for an acceptable candidate, not another Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |