P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

There are so many ways and different people who show up and vote now. The way turnout works now. The abilities we have now to turn out voters. The polling can't understand that. And that's why the polling was so wrong in 2016. It was 100% wrong. Nobody got it right - not one public poll.

Why do I think the polls were wrong? People were relying on the pollsters. There was "the Brexit Effect." I think there's a Trump Effect, too. I think people are lying to the pollsters about Trump. There isn't any question about it.

The pollsters who have telephoners are going to consistently get a lower vote for Donald Trump because the media has attacked him so savagely and so dishonestly that a substantial number of people will not say they're for Trump.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

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

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.

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.

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

Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

We're doing exactly what the Republicans don't want: getting more people involved in our democracy. Giving more Americans a voice in their future.

I've learned a long time ago not to take polls too seriously.

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

I don’t think as a general matter we should be encouraging people who don’t know anything about what they’re voting for to vote. That’s what Democrats do. Republicans shouldn’t follow suit on that.

We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.

I think, of course, all senate races are national races.

The errors in media polling rarely benefit a Republican.

Carly Fiorina has campaigned hard in New Hampshire to earn support from voters.

I don't put a lot of stock into polls.

I think what we can do is make sure as conservatives that we elect good people to both the House, the Senate, and make sure that President Trump gets re-elected.

I don't put too much stock in polls.

Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest. People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that's human.

If we want to defeat Hillary Clinton and have a chance to change the trajectory of our country, we need to unite behind the Republican ticket this November.

Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.