Baron Hill Quotes

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.

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

I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.

It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.

I think people are going to have a choice to make in the fall. But I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There's no doubt about that.

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

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

Three weeks is a lifetime in presidential politics. The conventional wisdom changes so suddenly.

If it's Clinton versus Trump, all Indians are voting for Trump.

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

When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.

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

I've had many conversations with the Clinton family. We're friends. It's hard, very tough. I think on Election Day, everybody felt pretty good. I think the Trump campaign thought they were gonna lose.

Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

The framework of the election favors Donald Trump.

Midwest elections have consequences.

Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations.

As a Democrat following the 2012 presidential election closely, I was happy to see that South Carolina voted overwhelmingly for Newt Gingrich, a candidate almost too easy for President Barack Obama to beat in the fall. I was not, however, surprised at the state's gaffe.

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.

In some future America, there could be a plausible Michael Bloomberg path to the Democratic nomination. I would love to read a column by a smart person actually attempting to persuade me of this, using evidence.

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

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

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

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.