Electoral Analysis Quotes

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

Democrats did not lose control of the Senate because African Americans did not vote. Actually, as supported by preliminary exit poll data, the complete opposite is the case. African Americans increased as a proportion of the electorate in 2014 over 2010.

It's important not to demonize [Donald's] Trump voters.

Hillary Clinton has had a small but persistent lead since June - anywhere from 2 to 5 points. The stock markets and the election betting pools are predicting a Clinton win.

The UKIP voter is 60 percent male, 40 percent female. Is 65 percent older than 55 and 35 percent younger than 55. It's not hard to work out. Some have been Labor. Some have been Tories. The most difficult thing is previous voting intention, because they're coming from across the board.

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

I was surprised that when you get into electoral politics how scientific the analysis was in the electorate. You can identify on a state-by-state or district-by-district basis fundamental building blocks that behave in different ways. I was impressed in general with the sophistication of polling.

The pollsters and pundits will keep trying to read voters' minds.

I have states that no other Republican would do well in that I think I'm gonna win. But I don't want to name those states.

In the nineties, the PT had wrongly decided to attribute its electoral failures to its virtues.

I think the Republican Party is in a strong position with Latino voters and other demographics.

There's a real sense - that we have to get past on the left - that every person who voted for Trump is evil.

We look at individuals who would vote for Donald Trump as if... we kind of undervalue them. And we underestimated them.

The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes, the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path.

Republican candidates have won whites with college degrees in every presidential election since polling began.

When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?

Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.