Electoral Map Quotes

Usually, I chalk Democratic dreams of a blue Texas to the same sort of thinking that brought us the inevitability of the coalition of the ascendant and 100% certainty that Donald Trump was going to lose.

I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.

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

There's no question about it, from a big picture standpoint, our No. 1 goal must remain reapportionment, because if we allow ourselves to get ruthlessly gerrymandered in reapportionment as we did last time, we can forget any reasonable chance of getting control of the U. S. House of Representatives until well into the next millennium.

Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.

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

The framework of the election favors Donald Trump.

We had the election won. Debates couldn't help us and might hurt.

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

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

When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.

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.

Presidents are not elected in these crowded halls, with cheering thousands. They are elected by the fireside in November.

I was incredibly - I've never been more confident of anything in my life that Hillary Clinton was going to win and Donald Trump would lose by a very large margin.

President James Buchanan's margin of victory in the election was fifty thousand dollars.

To win in 2020, a Democratic nominee will need to win back voters in key Midwestern states who supported Trump in 2016.

If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.

Wouldn't it be something if Liberty's votes were enough to change which presidential candidate won Virginia and maybe even the presidency itself?

The blue states we were able to turn red and basically haven't been red since Ronald Reagan. I think ObamaCare was the bigger hit.

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.

If neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump nor I are able to win 270 in the electoral college... then it will go the House of Representatives.

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

They said a Republican could never win Michigan. I knew better, you knew better, and Donald Trump knew better. We all know - never underestimate Michigan.

There's a very striking fact about the elections which you can't miss if you looked at the red-and-blue electoral map the next day: it's the same political landscape that you saw during the Civil War - nothing much has changed except the party names.

The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.