Bob Beauprez Quotes

Democrats didn't just lose the 2016 presidential election, they lost seats across the country at every level of government under Obama's tenure in the White House.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

I don't think Obama will get re-elected.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.

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

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.

American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of Trump.

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible for our government's ineffectiveness and gridlock.

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

I think that for the United States, Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about Donald Trump.

The framework of the election favors Donald Trump.

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

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.

I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.

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