Jerry Falwell Jr. Quotes

I cannot recall a single case where a Vice President contributed one electoral vote in a Presidential election.

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.

As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.

Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.

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

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.

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.

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

You're losing in Ohio, but, don't worry, we're winning in Pennsylvania.

A [Presidential] candidate, confident of winning or sure of losing a bare majority of a state’s popular vote has no reason to expend resources there.

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible for our government's ineffectiveness and gridlock.

Part of the elements of the electoral college is creation. Certainly it was created in slave states and them wanting to balance power, but there's not a specific set of the country always determining who the president is.

The Electoral College is provided for in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. More space in the Constitution is devoted to laying out the Electoral College than to any other concept in the document.

Pennsylvania is one of the most important states in the country when it comes to the election of the president of the United States.

In the '90s, I think that Bill Clinton would have won in Puerto Rico. I think in the 2000s, George Bush would have won in Puerto Rico.

The two pillars of winning the presidency are being a strong leader and being someone who understands us and our problems.

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner.

Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

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.

I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again.

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.