"So the campaign strategically decided it was high time we define Wellstone."

He said he did not know why the campaign decided to file monthly.

The campaign decided not to compete with other candidates over who was meaner or tougher.

With the campaign fully decided, the two men changed their subject.

From there, the campaign will decide where to send them across the South.

Dan Allen, a spokesman for the state party, said the campaign had not decided yet whether to do that, but wanted to keep its options open.

Mitt Romney's campaign has decided upon a rather novel approach to winning the presidency.

Investigators usually turn over information to the client and let the campaign decide how to handle it.

Republican advisers also said the campaign had decided to double the weekly expenditure on television advertisements, to $5 million, for at least the next week.

Mr. Schneider said today that the campaign had not decided whether to seek a ruling on the issue.