He did not directly answer questions about whether there are tensions in his marriage and suggested that voters would judge him on his record.

"Right now, voters are judging Clinton in a vacuum," he said.

Cranks believe Gingrich should have taken the money and let the voters judge his conduct at the polls.

Mr. Bloomberg has said that voters should judge him principally on education.

"It is ludicrous to suggest that voters should judge anyone's performance after one year in office."

Perhaps the voters will not judge them harshly this fall.

That's what most voters will judge us on," says one senior Tory.

It is part of his theme to ask voters to judge people by stereotyping.

But he argued that voters would ultimately judge him on his record.

The strategy here: to invite voters to judge on the basis of social, not economic, issues.