Even now, without the pressure of campaigning, he is not given to wax philosophical about his identity.
But the pressures of campaigns — and perhaps the hearts of Texas voters — are still with the knife.
Mr. Obama is free of the pressures of campaigning — and free to lead the nation toward sensible laws that can help reduce the flood of guns and related homicides.
It was not the first time Mrs. Clinton had suggested that Mr. Obama was not tough enough to withstand the pressures of campaigning.
If he were to run, Mr. Codey would have to deal simultaneously with the fiscal pressures of being a governor in lean times, the institutional pressures of being Senate president and, of course, the political pressures of campaigning against a highly popular and enormously wealthy candidate.
It led, for example, to that café moment in New Hampshire when – at last – the candidate who is normally so corseted in a script concocted by her highly paid advisers showed a little leg, tearing up when asked about the pressures of campaigning day in and day out.
Tymoshenko was his first Prime Minister, but once the pressure of the campaign had lifted she and Yushchenko were unable to get along.
The pressure of the campaign opened a rift between Blamey and Rowell, which was to have important consequences.
But incredibly, given the evidence that has emerged under the pressure of relentless campaigning, he also argues that the force itself, and its chief constable Peter Wright, orchestrated no corporate effort to blame supporters.
Military failure abroad, and the associated fiscal pressure of constant campaigns, led to political discontent at home.
