Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.

He also began writing a column for the conservative National Review. 2006

In the Democratic primary he defeated political newcomer Eddison Walters 90%–9%. On May 29 2012 Artur Davis confirmed that he was changing his voter registration from Alabama to Virginia and that he would run as a Republican were he to seek political office in the future.

In May 2012 he confirmed that he was considering running for Congress as a Republican. He was also a candidate for governor of Alabama in the 2010 Democratic Gubernatorial Primary.