Patrick Murphy Quotes

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

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

You're losing in Ohio, but, don't worry, we're winning in Pennsylvania.

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.

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

Pennsylvania is one of the most important states in the country when it comes to the election of the president of the United States.

I think an Edwards-Kerry ticket would be powerful.

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

I hear you're losing Ohio, but we're doing fine in Pennsylvania.

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

There is no reason why the right Democratic nominee can't win Ohio. President Obama did it twice in 2008 and 2012.

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

I'm not going to opine as to whether I think a particular candidate can beat Donald Trump or not.

In the '90s, I think that Bill Clinton would have won in Puerto Rico. I think in the 2000s, George Bush would have won in Puerto Rico.

Wouldn't it be something if Liberty's votes were enough to change which presidential candidate won Virginia and maybe even the presidency itself?

I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.

The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

In some future America, there could be a plausible Michael Bloomberg path to the Democratic nomination. I would love to read a column by a smart person actually attempting to persuade me of this, using evidence.

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

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

Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.

Election victories increasingly depend on factors other than who votes, or tries to vote, and for whom. In 2000, the presidency was awarded by the Supreme Court, pre-empting the count of thousands of Florida votes.

Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.