Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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

It's about going to where your voters are.

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

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

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

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.

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.

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.

To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

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.

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

You should be strenuous in seeing as many people as possible every day of every possible class and order, for from the mere numbers of these you can make a guess of the amount of support you will get on the balloting

How can you challenge an incumbent and not be divisive?

Low turnout in off-year races is always a challenge for Democrats. Many of our voters require information and must be contacted way ahead of Election Day - and reminded of what's at stake.

Influencing voters is the crux of all poll campaigns.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

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.

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?

As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them.

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

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

I ran for chairman of the Democratic Party to win elections.