Barack Obama: “Presumably he'll be twisting with some elbows as Democrats try to nail down the votes they need.”

This race is going to be close. It could determine which party controls the Senate and whether Ohioans can count on the people in Washington to be fighting for you.

A drift towards extremism was "not inevitable

And I will fight for that, even if I don’t always think it’s going to win.

I think when we act on that basis, it doesn't always work out, but over time things do get better.