Larry J. Sabato Quotes

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

India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

Three weeks is a lifetime in presidential politics. The conventional wisdom changes so suddenly.

Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

All politics is local.

I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.

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

Politics in America is moving from representative politics to interactive politics.

The pendulum does swing in the congressional picture.

Television has become the primary precinct of politics.

Our American elections have been fought between parties which, roughly, have represented the forces advocating change and those preferring stability.

When our side wins it’s always because of national trends. When the other side wins, it’s always because of local conditions.

Politics is a leading indicator.

Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics.

I think, of course, all senate races are national races.

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.

Midwest elections have consequences.

The considerations and aspirations of the people in the Lok Sabha polls is completely different from Assembly polls.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

The Democrats were losing elections everywhere, except when Obama was on the ballot - and that is the racial component.

If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.