Joshua A. Tucker Quotes

More and more, the Negro vote is becoming the decisive power in National politics. The Negro vote is the balance of power in so many important big states that one almost has to have the Negro vote to win a Presidential election.

No candidate can become president without the Latino vote.

If Barack Obama goes on to win the election, there will be plenty of ink and video spent on chronicling the historic nature of the turnout among young voters and African-Americans. But as important as both constituencies have been to Obama - particularly in the primaries - it's Hispanics that could be putting him over the top on Nov. 4.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

U.S. politicians are increasingly recognizing the relevance of the Hispanic vote in U.S. politics.

We're not going to get the Negro vote as a bloc in 1964 or 1968, so we ought to go hunting where the ducks are.

Middle class voters are the mega-prize in American politics.

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

I vote, but I don't feel that I'm achieving much when I do.

I'm from Florida and we have huge primary contests there.

Many people think that Puerto Rico would be a Democratic state just by virtue of the inclination of the Latino population in the United States, but the reality is that I see Puerto Rico as a battleground state.

If Latinos stay at home, we determine the outcome of an election.

Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.

If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election.

I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'm confident that I can do a good job in articulating why President Obama ought to be the candidate that Americans select for the next four years.

The way to help this country is to limit Republican power.

This is representative government, and Indians have very little political clout because for the most part, they don't vote. But white ranchers and farmers do vote.

[Immigrants] are alone, ignorant strangers, a prey to all manner of anarchical and wild notions. Except to their employer they have no value until they get a vote.

We should hold the presidential elections at least a few weeks before the congressional election so that the voters will know which party will control the White House.

The Republican establishment who did not want Trump to win - either the primary, in some cases the general - they were unable to do anything that impacted the actual vote.

Florida has been, and will continue to be, a swing state.