Andrew Gillum Quotes

The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.

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.

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.

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.

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 weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

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

If they're not voting, we're not touching their heads and hearts.

It will help your campaign tremendously to have the energy of young people on your side to canvas voters, gain supporters, spread news, and make you look good.

I welcome an arms race for minority ethnic voters. This will ensure we all raise our game.

Whenever we do voter registration, we ask, 'Why haven't you voted before?' The response is often, 'No one's asked us.' It's not about telling people what to do - it's about sharing what they can do.

Voters memories will fade some.

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.

In Shahjahanpur, there was not much of a political fight. It was my family constituency and I knew all the voters and their problems and needs.

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.

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.