Matthew Dowd

Matthew Dowd spent 30 years working in partisan politics, most recently playing leading roles in the elections of Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger, R-Calif., and President George W. Bush. In 2004 he served as chief strategist to the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign. That year the bipartisan American Association of Political Consultants named him Pollster of the Year. Prior to 2004, Dowd served as a senior strategist on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. In the 1990s, Dowd was president and...Full Story