Meghan McCain Quotes

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

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates.

Every election is a matter of definition.

It's about going to where your voters are.

In presidential elections, I think people focus way too much on ideology.

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

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

Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

I wouldn't vote for Obama.

I'm in California, and that usually leans Democratic, and that's usually where I lean anyway... I would lean Democrat; I would lean Obama.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

I don't think that winning the presidency of the United States is a matter of a single issue.

All presidential elections will ultimately be a fight for the middle.

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

In politics, you have a one-day sale. You have every customer allowed in the store for one or two minutes on that day, and you have to sell a majority or plurality of the market or you are out of business.

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.

Carly Fiorina has campaigned hard in New Hampshire to earn support from voters.

Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.

I've been watching and involved in presidential politics since 1960 when I first voted, and the Republican, the conservative candidate in the primary is always going to lean right and come back to the center for the general - the opposite for the Democrat.

I mean, I got reelected in 2016. Donald Trump took Montana by 20 points. I won by four. Twenty-five to 30% of my voters voted for Donald Trump. And that's not, for me, changing who I am.