Time for Clintons to Finally Take High Road: Margaret Carlson Defeat is often harder on the family than the candidate. On election night, Bill and Chelsea Clinton tried to hold it together, while Hillary Clinton, for the umpteenth time, put on her game face to confront adversity.

Barack Obama Finds Two Wrights Make a Wrong: Margaret Carlson The most important part of Barack Obama's interview on Fox News Sunday this week was when he said ``I don't get too high when I'm high and I don't get too low when I'm low.''

Clinton, Channeling Rocky, Just Won't Quit: Margaret Carlson Politics is all about math until it becomes all about the story.

Democrats Stoop to Rove's Politics: Margaret Carlson (Correct) No matter how thin you slice the U.S. electorate -- soccer Moms, Nascar Dads, dotcommers, office parkers -- there is a surefire way to unite them. From GenX to Reagan Democrats, we can all agree: Nobody likes a snob, otherwise known in politics as ``elitists.''

McCain Coasts on Illusion We Want to Believe: Margaret Carlson As I was watching General David Petraeus being questioned in congressional hearings, I finally got why Senator John McCain has an even chance of being president in spite of supporting a war that most Americans are against.

Obama Throws Gutter Ball, Clinton Plays Pals: Margaret Carlson For his first time running a $200 million corporation, Barack Obama has done a good job. No small vendors left behind in Iowa or New Hampshire with their bills unpaid, no newspaper stories about staff members screaming at one another, no having to lend the campaign cash to keep going.

Hillary's Just Making It Up As She Goes Along: Margaret Carlson We all exaggerate. Life is mundane. Stories about it are usually more entertaining with just a bit of tweaking. That's how you can conflate George Clooney's once having gone to the same restaurant you ate at into a story about how you were both at Spago Saturday night.

Obama's `Cheap' Words May Prove Costly to Him: Margaret Carlson ``Words are cheap,'' Senator Hillary Clinton said when she first realized that Senator Barack Obama's were anything but. Self-aware enough to know she couldn't beat him on a podium, she decided to turn him into a latter day Elmer Gantry fooling people with sweet talk.

Silda Can Always Walk in Hillary's Footsteps: Margaret Carlson There's been almost as much talk about Silda Wall Spitzer appearing with her disgraced husband as about her disgraced husband, about why women in politics put up with so much from the men they love and why those men let them down.

Hillary Discovers Happy Medium in Television: Margaret Carlson Let's take an emotional IQ test this morning.