Franklin P. Adams Quotes

Most people vote against somebody, rather than for somebody.

In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.

It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

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

I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

We don't win or lose elections because of [party] rules.

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

The people are always worsted in an election.

I have never seen a poll elect anyone

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.

Popular elections are uncertain.

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

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

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

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'm tired now of the elections.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

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

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

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.

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.