Jimmy Gomez Quotes

People aren't necessarily as concerned with how you vote as long as they feel they have a voice. If you can cross that basic threshold - that is, when a voter knows you're willing to listen to them and that you care about their lives - then that's most of what you need to get their vote. It's not your voting record.

The larger percentage of people you have registered, the larger percentage of people you will have voting.

It's about going to where your voters are.

I've been reaching out to voters across the political spectrum from the very beginning.

I'm well aware of the dynamics of turnout and measuring enthusiasm and identifying and turning out voters. That's something I'm cognizant of in running a successful campaign.

We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out. We do not do well when the voter turnout is not large. We did not do as good a job as I had wanted to bring out a large turnout.

Whenever we do voter registration, we ask, 'Why haven't you voted before?' The response is often, 'No one's asked us.' It's not about telling people what to do - it's about sharing what they can do.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.

In Shahjahanpur, there was not much of a political fight. It was my family constituency and I knew all the voters and their problems and needs.

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

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.

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.

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

If they're not voting, we're not touching their heads and hearts.

Young people - motivating them in any election is hard to do.

The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.

Turnout is good for the system.

The basic job of any campaign is to translate grassroots energy into turnout.

We fail to continue to talk to, to court, to engage our voters. And then we look up and expect our nominees to look up and go from 0 to 100 in a matter of two months to try to secure a victory.

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

Black Fergusonians have shown that they will vote when they have something to vote for and know that their vote will count. Seventy-six percent of them turned out in November 2012, when Missouri was a key swing state for Barack Obama's reelection.

So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.