He is in home territory for sure, no question about it. And that’s where he wants to be. He doesn’t enjoy naysayers and critics and opposition. Never has. And right now, he needs that nurturing cocoon that he is in. He is not calling people who didn’t support him. He is calling people who supported him, those 14-year-olds.

—Bruce Buchanan, a presidential scholar at the University of Texas, on George W. Bush’s new neighborhood.