William W. Dudley Quotes

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.

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?

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.

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.

It's about going to where your voters are.

Influencing voters is the crux of all poll campaigns.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

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.

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

“Vote early and vote often,” the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities.

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

Low turnout in off-year races is always a challenge for Democrats. Many of our voters require information and must be contacted way ahead of Election Day - and reminded of what's at stake.

I welcome an arms race for minority ethnic voters. This will ensure we all raise our game.

You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion.

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.

Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we think impacts them, instead of our plan to move the country forward as a whole.

We need candidates who are able to reach out to young voters, women voters.

Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.

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

There are a lot of different demands on the campaign trail, but what matters most is that you connect with voters and take the time to really hear their concerns.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.