16 Quotes by Karlyn Bowman

After 9/11 Bush, had perfect pitch in terms of his personal and policy reaction. He hasn't been so surefooted this time.

This is an opportunity for Democrats, but we haven't seen any evidence yet that they are going to make big gains.

Americans, as they always do when they have troops in harm's way, are going to be watching the performance on the ground. While they may be encouraged by the elections . . . at the same time they are going to want to continue to measure how it's going.

This president should be glad he's not running for re-election. But the president is clearly holding his base. It's very important for him to keep the base support in terms of getting things done.

It's unrealistic to expect him to gain back too much more ground given the deep polarization in this country about the Bush presidency.

Iraq is just a great weight holding down perceptions of an economy that is quite robust. Whenever you have troops in harm's way, people are anxious about things in general.

I don't really think Katrina had much effect.