If John McCain can wrap it up tomorrow night, his danger right now is that, in wrapping -- and trying to wrap it up and trying to win the conservative vote, he will be seen by -- as pandering by the independents and Democrats.
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He's come at -- he's very -- he's gotten to be very hard-line now on anti -- or a low-tax position.
Obama has a different strategy. And that is if he can win the interior states, places like Colorado and then put that together with a serious showing in California.
Hillary Clinton wants to concentrate both on the West Coast in California, on the East Coast in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts.
I think she pulled off a couple of good one-liners. She had a terrific one-liner on the question it took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, and I think it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one.
I think moat Democrat will look at that say, whatever happens here, we're going to have a good candidate.
I think it's going to help unify the Democratic Party because of how civil it was.
I think he will be well-advised to withdraw and not lose New York. I mean, that would be a humiliation if he were to go down in New York to say John McCain if that were to happen.
If John McCain were to win Florida and I do think that that would help him enormously.
This was a man who was the frontrunner for week after week after week.
Well, one thing, George W. Bush is not in the race. And that helps a lot.
I think there's been a wariness about him. We saw that among evangelicals out in Iowa, when Huckabee won.
I think he has waited so late for a lot of voters. Some friend told me a couple days ago, this is like running a marathon, and here is a runner who waits until the sixth mile to get in the race.
One of the most interesting questions now is, with Bill Richardson out of the race, who gets the Latino vote, which is heavy in Nevada?
These stories may be very old in Ron Paul's life, but they're very new to the American public and they deserve to be totally ventilated. I must say, I don't think it's an excuse in politics to have something go out under your name and say…
The culinary announcement will make a big difference. It will help Barack Obama a lot.
It looked like Hillary Clinton territory. She's by nature stronger there, was before Iowa. And New Hampshire should help her.
Well, he's grievously wounded. You know, he's -- he's now going to try go -- in Michigan, he will live off the memories of his father, who was a wonderfully popular governor of Michigan some 40 years ago.
I think there's a very good chance of that. And, if I may say so, Anderson, whether you like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, I think that's good for the candidates and good for the country.
He could -- McCain has very strong support among independents in New Hampshire.





