For the mayor, obviously it's great to have a lot of money in your treasure. But this amount of money, there's some danger in raising too much in that people start looking at you as a representative of big special interests.

Steele has had a varied life. A lot of these anecdotes would serve him well if he used them.

He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it.

The window on that is growing short, too.

That's the Republicans' hole card. Bringing home a couple billion for the labs.

We can't cater to the lowest common denominator.

This is bad timing and bad luck for the Democrats.

This is the scandal that is probably bigger than the other ones.