Well, that was part of the Bush campaign doing its job.

I spent four years saying that he wasn't fully legitimate. He's fully legitimate now. And he's got a majority of the vote in a high-turnout election.

I've got to give ultimate congratulations to the president, but then also to his team, Karl Rove, Mark MacKinnon, Matthew Dowd, that whole staff...

I mean, Kerry did his job. He got all the Democrats, he even won the independents. But what the president did was trump all that by finding, identifying, motivating, and then delivering to the polls millions of new Republican voters.

So I think what's interesting to me is, how do you keep this going? Right, if you're the president, if you're Karl Rove?

Karl Rove, before he became this great guru, was a direct mail consultant. He knows how to find people, get to their homes, and motivate them.

I think turnout will break 60 percent for the first time since the 1960s. It will be a record turnout. The biggest one cycle increase in turnout that we've ever seen, at least in the last 50 years. And I think that benefits Kerry. I think…

The focus on Vietnam actually didn't work. He thought it would. Or at least I didn't think it worked. His staff thought it would. But the convention speech, where he focused strongly on Vietnam, really didn't move voters.

He had to speak about what he thought was most important, where he was more credible, where his heart was. And he found that voice, as Tucker says, when he started critiquing the current operations in Iraq, and I think that's done him an…

I think it helps. It's a close election. He's beloved by the Democratic base, but also probably more important is a lot of swing voters who think very highly of him.

What Senator Kerry, while he probably would rather campaign on some of the domestic issues, I think there's a sense in the Kerry campaign that they don't want to let the president re-merge.