Claire McCaskill: “We are not here to participate in a partisan or a political exercise; we are here to fulfill the Senate's constitutional…”

And then they overturned a right that women had in this country for 50 years. It is unbelievable how bad it is.

I have won when the polls said I couldn't and I have lost when the polls said I would win, so I am not a big believer in all of the horse race stuff.

Maybe we'll learn that extremes are not healthy for general elections.

I think that, fundamentally, voters do understand that we have very, very low unemployment. They see it in their families, that everybody has jobs, everybody can get jobs, their jobs are paying slightly better.