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

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.

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

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.'

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