"John McCain had an opportunity to be on national television today along with Sarah Palin and make their principal arguments."
"Well, Anderson, coming to Washington today I found the Democratic and Republican insiders universally believe that this campaign is slipping away from John McCain, that he only has three or four days ..."
"First of all, amen to what Paul Begala just said. And yes, Anderson, I think the racial issue still lurks here, and we don't know how it's going to play out."
"Well, Anderson, coming to Washington today, I found that Democratic and Republican insiders universally believe that this campaign is slipping away from John McCain, that he only has three or four day..."
"The interesting comparison, and I know people don't like to hear about foreign countries very much but there was in France, Sarkozy was running as the nominee of a very, very unpopular incumbent party..."
"Palin appears to be a continuing, if not an increasing drag on the GOP ticket."
"I do not think it's helpful, at all, for the Republicans to have these continuing stories about Sarah Palin."
"I think the debates have -- he helped himself a great deal with that and with the Colin Powell endorsement."
"On Friday when she takes the deposition or releases her records, get all this out of the way and get the campaign back to the economy and the focus back on John McCain."
"This is not over. I'm here in Pennsylvania, and I can tell you that folks here have been telling me here in Philadelphia, the Democrats, that while Barack Obama has a ten- or 11-point lead in the poll..."
"He's going to be a much -- the government is going to be in good hands."
"I think most people will respect him for going to see a very seriously ill grandmother who has meant so much to him and his upbringing."
"the McCain people will say, look, you people in the liberal media elite, as they call us, are not holding Barack Obama to his promise about not taking private funding and breaking out of public fundin..."
"But I have to tell you, from a public -- larger public point of view, I think it's going to be seen as just one more desperate effort to say -- to do whatever it takes to try to bring this over."
"If you look at the undecideds now in the race, they tend to look a little bit more like Obama voters than McCain voters."
"I think John McCain ought to be about big ideas about the future, and not about this kind of stuff."
"I think that Bay is absolutely right. She did enormous good for John McCain early on. But increasingly her positives are going down, her negatives are going up."
"I do. I think that the more the campaign is conducted in Virginia, and North Carolina, Florida and Ohio, the more it looks like all Obama has to do is probably is win one of those four."
