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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.

I was a political science student.

I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them.

I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians.

I'm a lousy journalist.

If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

I'm in politics, but I'm not an expert in politics.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.