David Gergen

I continue to believe this is not yet over, and Obama is right to go out and warn his supporters against complacency.

Cindy McCain the other day saying, this has been the sleaziest campaign run against her husband ever.

There must be a lot of pent-up frustration and anger in him, too, because it just -- he just seemed to erupt when it got over to the negativity of the campaign.

He has drawn upon these debates to help transform the race. He's in a commanding position now.

This country is very mad at Washington, even on the edge of an economic precipice last week. Americans understood how serious it was. And they didn't trust Washington with $700 billion.

I think tomorrow night, he really has to crystallize and win convincingly, if he can, because he can probably put it away tomorrow night if he has a convincing, really inspiring debate.

Barack Obama has to do more than sit on his lead. I think Alex is right. There's been too much of that. And I think he's got to come out forceful tonight.

That's exactly right, Anderson. It does resonate. Today, she got the biggest hand on that in her crowds. And so it's working among the conservatives.

When are we going to hear words of repudiation about what's been happening, the hatred that's been expressed at some of these rallies?

When are they going to repudiate some of the people who are saying these hateful things in the rallies?

John McCain was absolutely right to reject any comparison between himself and George Wallace.

When are John McCain, when is Sarah Palin going to reject the kind of comments that have been made at their rallies?

It's not the campaign staff who is responsible for the candidate. The candidate is responsible for the quality of his campaign, the message of his campaign, the money- raising, and the mobilization of voters.

But, you know, he has already done that once. He fired his campaign earlier when he was in trouble. And he did rise from the ashes, and admirably so.

It is a setback for the McCain campaign. It really blunts some of their argument about Barack Obama.

I think it's really imperative that the candidates try to calm people down.

Every day that goes by like today, when McCain does not break through, I think, is a bad day for McCain.

McCain ought to get his campaign off the road and look at the -- and get the best economic minds in the country together and come back Monday, Tuesday, with a really serious speech.

I think it's incendiary. And I don't fully agree with Ed that it's all over it now.

If I were in his position right now, I would meet with a group of economists over the weekend; spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to stop this economy from cratering.

I think he shoot both of this debates -- I think he's been far better in both of this debates than he was with Hillary.

I think he's in a commanding position coming out of this second debate.

I think it's too early to declare victory Anderson, because Barack Obama is black.

It's almost as if we're living in two different universes. Most Americans are deeply, deeply concerned about the economy and their -- and their pocketbooks and their savings accounts, worrying about the proverbial 401(k) turning into a…

It's almost as if we're living at two different universes. Most Americans are deeply, deeply concern about the economy and their pocketbooks and their savings accounts; worrying about the proverbial 401(k) turning into a 201 (k).