Given a landscape that is so heavily tilted against the Republicans, John McCain is doing remarkably well in these national surveys.

One of the reasons that the oil prices spiked, as they did today, by $12, driving down the stock market, was a remark by the transportation minister of Israel saying war with Iran was inevitable.

I also felt that, even though she got off to a very bad start in the campaign... she became the fighter.

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

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

What he wants to do is to let this vice-presidential question essentially float to the back burner. He needs to take charge not by spending the summer worrying about who's going to be his vice president, but by laying out a clear framework…

I think he just told Candy Crowley in his interview today, this is a deliberative process.

She's trying to move to make it his decision, and he's taking charge of the party.

She has -- I think that was very wise of her today, after talking to a variety of people, to recognize what she did on Tuesday night and the way her supporters have been trying to pressure him is backfiring.

Very important meeting, reassuring the Democrats. The fact that it was not more stage-managed suggests to me they really did want to keep it quite private, and they weren't quite certain going in whether it would be a cordial meeting.

This is a very, very important meeting.

this is the most important decision he has to make before the election.