This is a tough vote and he buckled, ... I know he's made some tough votes before. It's hard to take one vote and make it his whole record.

Wagner's tough. We all know how good he is. We just buckled down.

[But he pledged to bring the issue to a vote.] I don't know that we'll have the votes on the day we get back, no, ... But I think we'll have the votes next week as the chairmen work with their members.

It's hard to get write-in votes, so even if they only add 1,000 votes to Carr with this, it's worth it.

Elections aren't just about who votes but who doesn't vote.

The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.