Up close, however, this campaign, which officially started last October, sometimes appears more a slog than a fast strike, a lesson in the painstaking process of fighting sexually transmitted diseases even when, like syphilis, they have a cure as easy as a couple of shots of penicillin.
How would she close out this campaign that began with such promise that future Governor Gray Davis, former chief of staff to Jerry Brown, gave up his powerful post as state controller to run for the usually thankless office of lieutenant governor, the better to be in position in the event she ended up on the national Democratic ticket?
"There's no question there's a closing in this campaign," Davis said.
With the Calais demolition drawing close the campaign finally broke through.
As March came to a close the campaign revealed their fundraising total for the First Quarter.
In the races that are close, these campaign experts will have the biggest impact.
This would immensely elevate what promises to be three brutal closing weeks of this campaign.
Mr. Giuliani's closest advisers in this campaign include a number of longtime loyalists who, though seasoned in New York City politics, have not run a national campaign before.
Such pre-emptive voter cynicism reduces the value, for Democrats, of fact-checking Mr Romney's (admittedly vague) policy pledges.The closing weeks of this campaign promise to be both exciting and ugly.
Now, in the closing weeks of this campaign, Governor Romney has been using all his talents as a salesman to dress up these very same policies that failed our country so badly, the very same policies we've been cleaning up after for the past four years.
