So what happens is you have both parties scrambling for centrist voters. It turns into, unfortunately, kind of a prom-king personality contest. Both parties were less than effective in characterizing the difference between the two of them. It's also close because there's a real division in this country in terms of what people feel like. It's not enough to build a national party, a national coalition.
People have very different priorities in very different parts of the world.
You have all kinds of different agendas. It's remarkable to me that the two-party system can maintain itself in such a heterogeneous country. Ultimately, he chose the road of self-aggrandizement over trying to further the politics that he claimed to care about. I think he was disingenuous. It's upsetting, deeply upsetting.