We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.