Many candidates, it seems, could not help but go negative.

"That's what these candidates are going to have to deal with now."

If this did not happen then the top two candidates would go forward to a third round.

Neither candidate is going to pick one over the other.

In 1994 and 1996, the Republican candidate went down to defeat.

The way the candidates went on to spend the rest of the day was a case in point.

Otherwise, the top two candidates go through to a second round.

Then the candidate who won goes about the business of running the Government, until it all breaks out again four years later.

That opinion may have changed as each candidate came and went.

And, yes, the Democratic candidates are going to speak as well.