Claire McCaskill: “I don't think there's any question about it. I guess my plea to you is I would like to be as engaged in this process as…”

There is an over-classification problem, and I was surprised Secretary Gates didn't mention it.

I think even though abortion wasn`t at the top of the list when you ask people in that poll what issues they cared about, when governments across the country are threatening to forced incest victims to give birth, that makes people angry…

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.

Second, by installing a judge moments before a presidential election, never before in history.