Ryan Frazier Quotes

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

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?

There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

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.

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

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

It's about going to where your voters are.

Simply because you're a Democrat doesn't mean you can't speak to these issues in language that appeals to voters, particularly independent voters.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.

Competition for votes sends parties in a two-party system toward the center.

You can't win with just Republican voters. You can't win with just Democratic voters. The key is the ticket splitters.

We'll get out the [black] vote, but we need the white vote to win.

You should be strenuous in seeing as many people as possible every day of every possible class and order, for from the mere numbers of these you can make a guess of the amount of support you will get on the balloting

How can you challenge an incumbent and not be divisive?

You can't win an election unless you have a message.

The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.

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 have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.