The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted.

In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.

We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.

It will make the Tea Party look like a tea party.

Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.