David Gergen

Listen, if you -- if you or Hillary Clinton believe, as she does, in reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, and getting -- and having less carbon in the air, as she does, then the last thing you want is people buying more gasoline and…

I think she is right that it could be the game-changer. It has become the epicenter.

No. No. If he wins, he wins. Just like in Pennsylvania, the Clinton people were saying, a win is a win is a win. The same is true in North Carolina.

Absolutely. Listen, if you are Hillary Clinton and believe as she does in reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and having less carbon in the air as she does, then the last thing you want is people buying more gasoline and making it easier…

I think she is right, that it could be the game changer. It has become the epicenter and I'll tell you why, Anderson.

I think he has to win North Carolina in order to keep the superdelegates, you know, coming to him and hanging in there.

We can't go the other way. Let's just go ahead and go for Barack.

I think they are also very worried that, if -- if, at this late stage, the nomination now goes to her, it could really split the party badly for a long time to come.

Well, I think a lot of the superdelegates, Anderson, especially members of Congress, would prefer to have Barack Obama at the top of the ticket.

If he were to lose North Carolina, given the large black vote there, that would be very, very bad.

We're still going to be left hanging.

I think any win right now is a win. I think if there's white flight in North Carolina that's going to send a very bad message for him.

I think whoever emerges from this will be -- such as Barack Obama, I think he will be hardened up. I think he would be more seasoned as a candidate.

Without Wright, I think it's clear that Barack Obama would have won a big victory in North Carolina, and he had a very fighting chance to win Indiana.

I think they are also very worried that, if at this late stage, the nomination now goes to her it could really split the party badly for a long time to come.

I think a lot of the superdelegates, Anderson, especially members of Congress, would prefer to have Barack Obama at the top of the ticket.

I do think he has to go in Indiana now and push really hard. You know, if he can win Indiana under these circumstances, this thing can almost be over.

I think he did exactly what he needed to do. He got angry at Reverend Wright and he came out and smacked him right between the eyes.

Barack Obama has not shown that in this campaign. There's getting to be an ivory tower quality about this.

This is ultimately a test of Barack Obama and his leadership, his inner steel.

I'm telling you, they've got to show that he's got the gumption, that he's got the fight in him that when something like this comes along, he can push it out of the way.

But one of the things that Hillary Clinton has done in the last few weeks, she's proven she's a fighter. She will fight for the job, she's tough.

He has got to get back into this argument. Ed Rollins is absolutely right on that.

It's hard to imagine he can do much more, Anderson. His publicity blitz has been the dumbest, most selfish, most narcissistic act I've seen in politics in some 40 years.

I think he has been taken out of context.