FIX: What is your timeline on making a 2016 decision?

Portman: I am all in on 2014. I am the national finance chair [of the National Republican Senatorial Committee]. I will be in New Hampshire, Georgia and North Carolina in the last couple weeks. I am putting this other discussion off.

After the election, I am going to have serious discussions with people I respect, and look at the field. I worry about the direction of the country. This is about our country, and figuring out how to get to ‘yes’ and solve some of these problems that have been sitting out there too long. We need to deal with the underlying sources of poverty and lack of opportunity. To me it’s about how best to move this country forward. I haven’t taken the time to really do that analysis. I will do so after the election.