Obviously, we have a political season in the United States, and there's always different winds that blow on that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Democrats tend to think of elections as cycles. Republicans don't: It's ongoing and constant.
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps moving.
And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have.
It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.
People feel overloaded, that politics has become kind of a public utility: hot- and cold-running politics any time of the day or night.
There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.
Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.