Pat Sajak Quotes

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.

It's about going to where your voters are.

Influencing voters is the crux of all poll campaigns.

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

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

People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.

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

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.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

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

Middle class voters are the mega-prize in American politics.

You can't win an election unless you have a message.

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion.

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

We need candidates who are able to reach out to young voters, women voters.

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.

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.

You cannot win an election without a fight.

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.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

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

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.