Rarely has the public more needed to hear what the candidates think.
Even a candidate for godhood could not think of everything.
He sees this as an innocuous way to determine if candidates can think on their feet.
The time is really past when candidates should be thinking about whether to get in.
The public would get a surer sense of what the candidates think.
A: When the candidate thinks he can get more publicity by not announcing anything.
I suppose that's what every candidate thinks but in my case it happens to be true.
Many candidates think that campaign phone messages fall under the radar and won't be noticed by the establishment press.
"Every other candidate thought it was important enough to be here."
"Not the most likely candidate for a crown, I would have thought."