Ronna McDaniel Quotes

Remember, many Republicans didn't vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't inspire people.

The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.

The fundamental goal of Republicans and Democrats is to get themselves re-elected.

The real test of party strength is down close to the grass roots.

I would say the reason that Tim Bishop electorally was able to get more votes, if you were just going to analyze registration and numbers, is that he had a quarter of the Republican vote, every election. No one is getting a quarter of the Republican vote from me.

I think all nonpresidential elections are won or lost by motivating your own voters.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.

Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.

Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections.

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

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

If Strom Thurmond could get 30% of the black vote, any Republican can.

I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

The Latino vote has to be earned just like any other.

Iowa caucuses have been a graveyard for hawkish Democrats.

This is probably the greatest thing that I have ever accomplished but I fear that we Democrats have lost the South for the rest of my lifetime and probably you lifetime as well.

The Pulse of Democracy

In the Democratic party they call the people who lost the last election losers. In the Republican party, we call them the next nominee.

When you are not running for office, the people in the party listen to you more.