David Gergen

It's absurd -- it's absurd that we're sitting here talking about her clothing and this and that eight days before a major national election.

I think it's damaging in a couple of ways, Anderson. Just late last week, we were talking about the fact that there was a very, very tight window in which McCain had to turn the momentum in this campaign.

Next week is called the week for closing argument. And they are going to -- they have very carefully laid out a plan in their own heads about advertising, and other things, to make their closing arguments.

John McCain had an opportunity to be on national television today along with Sarah Palin and make their principal arguments.

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 days to turn the momentum around in his…

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 and instead of attacking the incumbent…

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 to turn the momentum around in his…

He's going to be a much -- the government is going to be in good hands.

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 polls, there is a widespread feeling that…

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.

Palin appears to be a continuing, if not an increasing drag on the GOP ticket.

I think the debates have -- he helped himself a great deal with that and with the Colin Powell endorsement.

I do not think it's helpful, at all, for the Republicans to have these continuing stories about Sarah Palin.

I think John McCain ought to be about big ideas about the future, and not about this kind of stuff.

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 funding. Why should you hold us to our…

If you look at the undecideds now in the race, they tend to look a little bit more like Obama voters than McCain voters.

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.

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 next president is going to have to deal with huge problems, and the public wants to know what kind of president are you going to be.

I think that Bay Buchanan is absolutely right.

I think that, the more the campaign is conducted in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and Ohio, the more it looks like all Obama has to do probably is win one of those four.

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.

Barack Obama is in a commanding position.