Geraldo Rivera Quotes

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

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

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

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

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

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

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

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

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.

As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc.

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

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

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

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

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

A [Presidential] candidate, confident of winning or sure of losing a bare majority of a state’s popular vote has no reason to expend resources there.

Elections are won ... chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.

I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.

As a longtime political operative, I know firsthand how a vote here or a vote there can make a huge difference in a close election.

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

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

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