Kevin Spacey Quotes

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

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.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Presidents are not elected in these crowded halls, with cheering thousands. They are elected by the fireside in November.

President James Buchanan's margin of victory in the election was fifty thousand dollars.

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

In the '90s, I think that Bill Clinton would have won in Puerto Rico. I think in the 2000s, George Bush would have won in Puerto Rico.

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

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

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

If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.

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

And looking at the landslides, you saw how Gore beat Bush so substantially in California.

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

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

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.

I was incredibly - I've never been more confident of anything in my life that Hillary Clinton was going to win and Donald Trump would lose by a very large margin.

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible for our government's ineffectiveness and gridlock.

The closely divided presidential election of 2000 - in which George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by the slimmest of margins in Florida - forever implanted the divide between red states and blue states in our political consciousness.

Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.

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.

The framework of the election favors Donald Trump.

For federal races, being able to carefully navigate the Trump Era is a significant challenge.

Usually, I chalk Democratic dreams of a blue Texas to the same sort of thinking that brought us the inevitability of the coalition of the ascendant and 100% certainty that Donald Trump was going to lose.