Ann Coulter Quotes

You're not trying to win 100 percent of the vote. You're after 50 percent plus one. It doesn't matter if you tick off the other 49 percent.

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.

This could be a close election. I can pretty much tell which states are going to be close. If you would start two or three weeks before Election Day and saturate those critical states with [TV Advertising] spots, it could swing the election.

The undecideds could go one way or the other.

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

President James Buchanan's margin of victory in the election was fifty thousand dollars.

You can’t win a Presidential election in this country with just a base.

I think that if the Democratic Party focuses on nominating who will make the best president, that's going to be a critical mistake. There's only one question at the end of the day, and that question is, Can the potential nominee beat Donald Trump?

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.

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

One thing without any question that is true today and that is that the winner of the 28-minute commercial is President Barack Obama.

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

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

And looking at the landslides, you saw how Gore beat Bush so substantially in California.

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

Presidents are not elected in these crowded halls, with cheering thousands. They are elected by the fireside in November.