Ralph Nader Quotes

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.

President Trump's coalition clearly involves creating massive turnout in areas where he's popular.

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.

I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.

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.

The undecideds could go one way or the other.

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

I've had four presidential candidates visit me in the tents, and they all lost. I tried to get Hillary down here, but she's too smart. She won't come to the tents.

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.

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

We had the election won. Debates couldn't help us and might hurt.

All presidential elections will ultimately be a fight for the middle.

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

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.

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

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

I have one focus and that focus is getting Donald Trump reelected.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.