Mike Curb Quotes

The framework of the election favors Donald Trump.

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

California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.

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

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

There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

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.

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

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

Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

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

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

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

Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight.

The environment is better and better for Democrats.

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

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

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

Nobody builds a permanent majority in politics, if they did It wouldn’t be politics.

The Republicans always looked bad three years out of four. But the year they look good is election year.

I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.

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

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

I would say the reason that Tim Bishop electorally was able to get more votes, if you were just going to analyze registration and numbers, is that he had a quarter of the Republican vote, every election. No one is getting a quarter of the Republican vote from me.