Bob Ehrlich Quotes

I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.

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

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

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

Practical politics is the politics of the coming election.

Democratic candidates who run from President Obama in red states where he is unpopular are making a big mistake. Their holding Obama at arm's length deprives voters of a clear choice at the ballot box.

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.

Political parties exist to get bums on seats.

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.

Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight.

I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

Newt Gingrich developed a whole vocabulary of polarization in order to get Republican candidates elected.

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

One of the favorite tricks of the Democrats is to try to get the Republicans to pass over their strongest candidate and nominate instead a candidate who will be easy to beat.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

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

Republicans want to use Obamacare in the 2014 elections against Democrats who voted for it. They want to see it fail, even at the expense of people's health.

Here's the deal: when conservatives lose elections, they change their strategy. When liberals lose elections, they want to change the rules.

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

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.

Constant conflict is actually often good politics. Because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at election day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.

I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.

Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

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