Bill Foster Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.

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.

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.

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

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

The Doppler Effect: When running in a primary, candidate appears farther to the left or right than he or she in fact is, but as candidate nears the general election, candidate's views appear to approach the center.

This could be a close election. I can pretty much tell which states are going to be close. If you would start two or three weeks before Election Day and saturate those critical states with [TV Advertising] spots, it could swing the election.

There is constantly a war going on between the two parties for the populist vote. The populist vote is always the swing vote.

You're losing in Ohio, but, don't worry, we're winning in Pennsylvania.

Vote counting is 90 percent art, 10 percent science, and all about human nature

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.

Elections are won ... chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You have to have candidates who can actually win. The winners make policy; the losers go home.

I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.

As a longtime political operative, I know firsthand how a vote here or a vote there can make a huge difference in a close election.

We tried two moderate Republican candidates, McCain and Romney, and we lost both times.

People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.

You can't just take and sample size a few hundred people and decide that what you think 200 - almost 200 million people are going to vote and go do. It's a complex country.

Since the election of President-elect Donald Trump, Democrats have repeatedly blamed everyone and everything for the loss of Hillary Clinton except for Clinton herself.