California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.

We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.

California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.

I think the Republican Party has changed. I think our politics have changed. The parties have deteriorated in their strength. They decentralized. We have these new super PACs and outside organizations and the Tea Party, a libertarian movement in the Republican Party. It's very different. And I think these Republicans now are very scared.

I think the White House is filled with confrontation, and is doing things to continue it. The White House and congressional Democrats think that they have the upper hand. They look at the surveys, they look at the polls, they think the Republicans are going to get blamed.

The worst time to take a survey is in the middle of a cataclysmic event.

Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.