One Night in Primary Land

Overheard at Washingtonpost.com on February 5th.
Your thoughts?

Of course it's a horse race. I don't understand why everybody objects to that. - Benjamin Bradlee, former Executive Editor of the Washington Post.

This is an election campaign; it's called a race for a reason. - Leonard Downie, Jr. Executive Editor of the Washington Post

Character matters and character is action. Reading the long stories - there are books on all of these people (and by the candidates) - that's the answer, not in the daily scrub of did so-and-so snub so-and-so." - Bob Woodward