Matthew Dowd Quotations

Michigan is one of the opportunities -- and there's not a lot of them when overall the numbers don't look good.

Former President Bush's approval on the economy at this same time in 1991 was 28 percent and fell to the mid-teens in 1992.

The Kerry campaign is working on their 16th negative ad.

We can never have enough strategy. We have enough tactics but not enough strategy,

President Bush maintains an approval on the economy in the mid-forties -- exactly what Clinton had at the end of 1995 and above what Reagan had in 1983.

We think it's important to remember what happened on 9/11 as we devise policies to address what happened, ... is a good ad, laying out the challenges this country's been through. We've had tremendously positive feedback. We're happy with the debate that the ad started, and we want to continue that. That's sort of how we see that.

It's the first time all the candidates will be judged in comparison to others, so they need to be cognizant of people beginning to see this as a choice.

Obviously, a lot of things that the administration had wanted to accomplish in 2005 and going into 2006 were tough.

Obviously, his look has a high degree of intensity.

This is part of our efforts to highlight what has happened over the last two years. This is sort of the start of that dialogue.