*Early in the debate, moderator Chris Matthews observed that the Florida gubernatorial race was one of the “cleanest” he had seen. Of course, he has arguably seen entirely too much of senatorial races in Tennessee, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
*On getting out of the office and getting involved in cherry-picked races with national import: “I’d do this for free. I love it.”
*On Max Linn’s late entry: “It felt like one of those last-second-calls-from-the-governor’s-office deals, you know, commuting a sentence or something. It certainly added an interesting element. It had to hurt the Republican candidate more.”
*So who won? “Sorry, I don’t get into that.”