Bradley's Improving Odds . If he can keep you arguing about such minutiae, you will lose. Part of the problem was Tim Russert, asking itsy bitsy questions, but the entire press corps has gone to sleep in trying to get at the differences between you. The biggest issue of all is your optimism versus his pessimism, which would show up if you had a serious debate about his hobby horse, Global Warming. Hey, he wants to shut down the world economy to keep temperatures from rising.
Mankind is the culprit.
We are driving too many cars and burning too many fossil fuels and maybe breathing too much, all that carbon dioxide cooking the atmosphere via the Greenhouse effect. Now you don't believe all that crap, I hope. It comes from the same noodleheads who persuaded Jimmy Carter a generation ago that the World would run out of liquid petroleum and natural gas in 1999, sometime around next week . I remember you once believed that yourself. At least in the primary, you thought we would have to build solar panels from Hoboken to Hawaii to squeeze some energy out of the sun or we would all freeze in the dark.