Paul Begala

Yes, I think she is authentically torn.

This is a great group of people that Senator Obama is -- president-elect Obama -- correct -- forgive me -- is turning to.

I think it's exactly what the new president needs.

This will take at least a year or a full term or two terms. We're in a deep, deep hole here. It's going to take a long time to get out of it.

One president at a time. Don't comment on every up and down, and, you know, stop attacking George W. Bush. He is our president.

That kind of determination, that kind of persistence, that kind of pain-in-the-neck, shall we say, approach is going to be very effective, I think, for President-elect Obama.

Democrats have been impressed with the job he's done.

That's a very good point, yes. And I say this as a professional partisan Democrat.

I mean, Bill Clinton did a good job of bringing in people, giving them experience, moving them up, and promoting them.

Barack's whole message was: I'm not Bush. I don't like Bush.

First, the most important rule of the transition is, there is only one president at a time.

I remember him telling me about this kid, this skinny kid, I don't know, maybe 10 years ago when we were working in the White House. He said, he is going to be the future of the Democratic Party.

Obama wins, and it won't be close. I think carries a minimum of 325 electoral votes.

If Obama can win a state like Indiana -- that's a reach -- it's tough, but I think he can -- then, this -- this could be a blowout.

And my greatest fear for tomorrow is that rather than the historic day it should be is that some people will give in to terrible impulses and try to intimidate voters because there will be a lot of people crashing into these voting places.

I think -- even if they do, I think Obama wins pretty big.

McCain ought to be -- not to advise him, but he ought to be campaigning to say Bud Day and Orson Swindle.

Obama is flooding the zone.

Barack Obama is the incumbent in this race.

It's a good metaphor for the whole thing.

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?

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.

It's interesting, because you and James Carville predicted earlier this week, I think on 'Huffington Post,' that the finger-pointing was about to begin.

This has been a terrible campaign run in a really difficult time. And McCain was dealt a terrible hand by President Bush and he's 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.