Senate races are different from House races, in the sense that they are more candidate-driven. The higher the office - that is, I mean, governor, senator, president - the more important the candidate.

Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.

Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.

Historically, when times are bad, voters, especially in the Industrial Midwest, have turned to the Democrats.

Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.