David Plouffe Quotes

Most people don't understand what the RNC ground game is.

Anybody else who's gotten the president of the United States elected, tell me you are better than I am at it.

I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.

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.

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

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

The key here is that we're not going to beat them on commercials: They're always going to have more money than us. So what we have to try to do throughout is just ask people to make sure they vote.

I have one focus and that focus is getting Donald Trump reelected.

The black vote is always important, and the reason is it serves as a tremendous base for the Democratic Party. On the national level, Democrats traditionally receive at least 90 percent of the black vote.

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.

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?

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.

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.

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

I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.

All presidential elections will ultimately be a fight for the middle.

Practical politics is the politics of the coming election.

Until the Negro votes on a large scale, we will have to rely more and more on mass direct action as the one realistic political weapon.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

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

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.

We must combat ill-advised conservative-led state legislation by encouraging every eligible person you know to vote.