The Democratic coalition has changed. It includes environmentalists and women's groups. It's a very different party. And so labor is still a part of it, but it's not the dominant part that it once was.

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.

I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.

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

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

The environment is better and better for Democrats.

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