Vicky Hartzler Quotes

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

We had the election won. Debates couldn't help us and might hurt.

As a longtime political operative, I know firsthand how a vote here or a vote there can make a huge difference in a close election.

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.

In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

I don't think we'll win every election.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.

The undecideds could go one way or the other.

The candidate who is successful in defining the election is usually the winner.

Elections are not about solving anything. Elections are about winning.

If the election had been held on October 27, I would be your President.