Michelle Dean Quotes

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

Well, you know, what's so exciting, is that it was a really telling campaign as well. Whenever we start looking at the differences, they could never be more clear.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, American voters were forced to choose between a liberal Democrat and weak establishment Republicans. Democrats won both times.

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

There is constantly a war going on between the two parties for the populist vote. The populist vote is always the swing vote.

The undecideds could go one way or the other.

If you’ve ever been in politics, I don’t want to vote for you.

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.

Primaries are the place where you see whose message is connecting with the largest number of people.

If it's Clinton versus Trump, all Indians are voting for Trump.

In some ways, I would be absolutely fascinated if Trump gets elected.

Donald Trump won, or he got the majority of the electoral votes, a large majority. I think it would be patronizing to say that the majorities of people in Florida and Ohio, smaller majorities in Wisconsin and Michigan, that they voted for him because they were misled by something on Facebook.

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

I think that winning the White House is about more than just entertaining a large audience.