Nor was he trying to show what a specific past performance might have been like.

No other human could know that past performance as he knows it.

If you go on nothing more than past performance, it is a target.

It is going to be about the candidates' past performance and future ability.

But Hillary's past performance is also the best information we have.

Of course, past performance doesn't guarantee anything, no matter how young someone is.

At first, financial results of the new public company will be difficult to compare with past performance.

But at this point in the season, past performances do not matter.

In the light of industry's past performance such adjustment does not seem likely.

Maybe the past performances have something to do with it.