Electoral Expectations Quotes

It is kind of a problem in America that so many Americans believe if they elect a different president, everything is going to be fine.

It wasn't like anybody said, 'Oh, Ronald Reagan will have a landslide in 1980.' In fact, you look back at the Dukakis numbers, the Perot numbers, there was always this presumption that the Republican was going to lose. Not just that the Democrat would win, but that the Republican was going to lose.

Electorates need a simple MLA, even if the person is a big leader.

If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

The American electorate has come to expect a growing pie, with politicians arguing about how to distribute the growth dividend every year.

When you're not sure what your constituents want, if you have a more conservative approach, or you have a wait-and-see approach - boy, voters were pretty clear about what they expect.

Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to support another African-American.

We must energetically tackle the significant problems the voters rightly want Washington to be addressing.