Wes Boyd Quotes

Mr. Trump understands the value of digital operations.

There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.

Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.

The Internet provides the campaign with an unbiased filter to get its information out.

We always said if we were going to target a millennial consumer, then we had to do it in their mother tongue, which is digital.

Social media has become a primary factor in political campaigns.

I can only speak to the Democrat side, but for the Democrats, everything is aggressively measured, and what that means is if you're going to use Snapchat, you're going to use it for a reason, not just for fun.

The Obama campaign has adeptly used YouTube and social networks as a relatively thrifty way to do targeted messaging.

I think social media brings another dynamic to running for office so publicly.

Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was no humor in Cleveland. And they are not making this a Donald Trump.

The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

Our focus is to continue to pioneer branded entertainment online and consider opportunities as they come. We're smart enough to know that we can't bite the hand that feeds us and neglect our Internet presence.

We could beat back Kennedy on Civil Rights, but Lyndon [Johnson] knows how to beat us.

If you can’t run against a political candidate, run against his campaign manager.

Practical politics is the politics of the coming election.

The Democrats want to save more on defense so they can spend more money to buy votes through the welfare state.

Candidates in primary campaigns always say they are in it to the end until they quit.

The time has come for political campaigning, its techniques and strategies, to move out of the dark ages and into the brave new world of the omnipresent eye,

People talk about the age and positioning of a brand, but hell, it's not about that. The global language is digital, and we need to speak the language.

I think a lot of campaigns mis-learned the lessons of Obama 2008. They overly focused on the particular tools, and less so on the fact that the Internet enables a kind of culture of trust to be translated into real power.

The longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.