Then the other side keeps upping the ante.

The campaigns can bluff a good game and say a state is in play when that state really isn't in play. These advertising dollar decisions tell us what they're really thinking.

We're seeing an arms race.

Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.

We have many candidates, like in reality television, but we don't really have a leader.

He just loved it — that was his favorite thing, doing the calculations himself.