Setting those two issues aside, we would have seen a pretty nice rise.

Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.

I've always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.

Normal is a setting on a washing machine.

We have some good expectations for Nissan for the coming year based on a richer U.S. product cycle.

This is probably the right way to go for them, but it's a riskier proposition than Lexus was for Toyota.