This has been a -- a really terrible campaign, run in a really difficult time. I mean, McCain was dealt a terrible hand by President Bush, and he has played it as badly as he could.

the only way, let's presume that McCain loses which is reasonably likely, the only way to revivify a party is to figure out what went wrong.

You know, he is a man of profound personal courage, and the suffering and service he gave this country ought to be honored and particularly by Democrats like me. Why not go out with some class and some dignity?

McCain needs to listen to David Gergen. His only hope is to go big, to be about the economy, to be big and affirming and heroic.

I think the problem McCain has is, voters are going to process all the information they're given for these last 26 days through the fact that they know that McCain is behind.

Both candidates are not being equally angry or equally negative or equally dirty. Obama has been a model of cool, calm.

Campaigns that are the most adaptive are the ones that win. And I think McCain is adapting the wrong way.

This is why what Sarah Palin was doing is so dangerous.

Barack's strategy tonight was almost on every issue, to harken back to Bush and link McCain to Bush.

Obama clearly had a strategy: link McCain to Bush and make him the status quo.

Again Obama's message is change and he is change incarnate and there's a real generational divide here.