Claire McCaskill: “Most average Missourians don't understand why there is a different set of rules for the phone that rings in their house…”

He's focused on himself?

This is never a referendum. Presidential elections, by the time they run around, is always, 'well, who do you like slightly better than the two you don't like?' So it is a binary choice.

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.

He has shown tremendous strength in terms of unifying NATO.