It was the first time people saw him really mixing it up and he handled it well. But the party doesn't want to push him into peaking too soon because we want him to be successful.

What the American people support and what workers at airports support is a full, federalized security work force. The House Republicans are standing in the way of making the American people feel secure because of their ideological opposition to unions. We believe everyone in airport security should be a federal employee. If it's good enough for the Justice Department or the FBI, it ought to be good enough for airport security.

We're coming together at the very time when the country is tired of one-party rule.

If that's true, it's certainly welcome news. But we have reason to believe that voters are already being challenged at the polls, and we'll certainly be monitoring it.

All candidates raise money differently. Our most effective way is face to face. For us, the Internet is not as effective.

It would be incorrect to add the two numbers together. At the same time, it would be incorrect to ignore the immigrant numbers and not include them.