I think it's extremely likely that we will see Barack Obama take a very high-profile visit to some countries, in which he can burnish his foreign policy credentials.

But he's also -- and in this today -- one of the things that happened, Erica, that's really important is, one of the reasons -- one of the reasons that the oil prices spiked, as they did today, by $12, driving down the stock market, was a…

She became the fighter. She sometimes overdid it. She sometimes looked like she would do anything to win.

I think both candidates right now are sort of far short of convincing voters that they have the right remedies for the economy.

I think she needs to make it extremely clear that she's an enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama, an enthusiastic supporter of the Democrats winning the White House.

I think it was extraordinary how many times she sort of came back from being, you know, 'The Perils of Pauline.'

But I think John McCain was very smart today to jump right into this about the unemployment and express his concern.

He needs to take charge, not by spending the summer worrying about who is going to be his vice president, but laying out a clear framework for what his presidency would be about.

Barack Obama is missing some tricks and not taking advantage of the economic circumstances in which we find ourselves.

I think both candidates right now are sort of far short of convincing voters that they have the right remedies for the economy.

I think it was extraordinary how many times she sort of came back from being, you know, 'The Perils of Pauline.'

John McCain is doing remarkably well in these national surveys. He is in a statistical dead heat with Barack Obama in a race ordinarily the Democrats would win by five, maybe and probably by ten points.