Speaker Biographies

Election Watch

January 8, 2004

Karlyn H. Bowman

is a resident fellow at AEI and is also a senior editor of The American Enterprise magazine. She is a frequent television and radio commentator and regularly writes a polling column for Roll Call. Her most recent books include What’s Wrong: A Survey of American Satisfaction and Complaint; Public Opinion about Economic Inequality (both with Everett Carll Ladd); and Public Opinion on Abortion: Twenty-Five Years after Roe v. Wade. Ms. Bowman also writes regularly for Public Perspective and the Women’s Quarterly.

Kenneth Mehlman

is campaign manager for Bush-Cheney 2004. He served as White House political director for President George W. Bush’s first two-and-a-half years where he oversaw and executed all aspects of the administration’s political strategy. He served as national field director for Bush-Cheney 2000, where he worked with the campaign leadership in all fifty states. Before that, Mr. Mehlman was chief of staff for Rep. Kay Granger (R-Tex.) and legislative director for Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.).

Norman J. Ornstein

is an AEI resident scholar. He is a senior counselor to the Continuity in Government Commission, and he formerly directed the Transition to Governing Project. His most recent books include Lessons and Legacies: Farewell Addresses from the U.S. Senate and Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What to Do about It, with AEI’s John H. Makin. Mr. Ornstein also serves as an election analyst for CBS News, writes a weekly column for Roll Call, and regularly contributes to USA Today. From 1997 to 1998, he was cochair of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.

William Schneider

, a resident fellow at AEI, is one of the country’s leading political commentators and is CNN’s senior political analyst. His columns appear regularly in National Journal and the Los Angeles Times. He has also written extensively on politics and public opinion for the New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, and other publications. Mr. Schneider’s analysis is regularly featured on CNN’s daily show, Inside Politics. He is coauthor, with Seymour Martin Lipset, of The Confidence Gap: Business, Labor, and Government in the Public Mind.

Ben J. Wattenberg

is a senior fellow at AEI. He is author of The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900-2000; Values Matter Most: How Democrats or Republicans Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life; The First Universal Nation: Leading Indicators and Ideas about the Surge of America in the 1990s; The Birth Dearth; The Good News Is the Bad News Is Wrong; and, with Richard Scammon, The Real Majority. He also is the moderator and host of the weekly public television program Think Tank.

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