The personal is political, but only to a point.

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

The personal is political, but only to a point.