He needs to reconnect with soft Democrats and independent voters, keep the rhetoric and the jokes down, and come up with some good ideas.

It tends to happen more often in the heavily populated areas because that's where the parties tend to be more active. It's no longer unusual.

Why did they wait several months to respond to attacks from unions? ... They made bad political decisions all the way through.

Gilchrist has the most emotional issue. A lot of people hate illegal immigration. And on that issue alone he is going to be able to motivate (voters). There's a lot of frustration and nobody is coming up with any answers.

When the governor started going after those public employee unions he made those rookie mistakes that we learned back in the '70s. And it does nothing but get you in trouble.

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get back on the horse again. That's my advice to him, which I believe he will do because he's a natural optimist, ... No matter what happens on Election Night, he'll figure out a way to say 'This is fantastic.'

If all the initiatives go down, partisan Democrats will say, 'We beat him today, now let's go beat him next year,'.

Gilchrist will appeal to the hard-core conservatives on the single issue of immigration, and one would think, take votes away from John Campbell.

These cheap shots at the president are ill-timed and ill-advised. It comes at a time when the president is being hit by all sides. It's piling on.