Quotes About Elections

As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They're up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!

I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge.

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.

Iowa voters are intelligent enough to make up their minds.

The total bogus voters in Dera Bassi might be several thousand.

As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.

The GOP cannot expect to win the presidency in the future by simply relying on running up big numbers with white voters.

How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

You have to be ready for anything. It's a good reminder about democracy. Voters can tell you to carry on, or chuck you out. You've got to be ready for both.

The pollsters and pundits will keep trying to read voters' minds.

I do think you need to listen to the voters.

To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Donors don't win elections; voters win elections.

I have made it my practice to not get involved in primaries because picking the Republican candidate is the voters' job.

I'm never going to become an expert on how you get delegates. I think what you've got to do is follow the will of voters.

Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.

You can get elected to Congress without ever talking to black voters at all, and I think that's bad for the party.

The point is - that Donald Trump has been making on the campaign trail is that he's financing his own campaign. That's very important for him to say now in his mind because he wants people to know that he owes nobody anything other than the American people, or the voters who are picking, choosing his candidacy.

Hillary Clinton needs the single ladies' vote. I call them 'The Beyonce Voters' - the single ladies.

Telling people more about yourself and distinguishing yourself from your opponent - they're both essential parts of communicating with voters.