Electoral Outcomes Quotes

As the quintessential swing state, Ohio has been on the front lines of battles to restrict access to the vote and make government less transparent. Conservatives know that they can't win without putting a thumb on the scale of electoral outcomes.

The presidential race should not be a battle of personalities.

All politics is local.

Politicians always do a two-step, depending on what their district politics looks like.

Liberal leadership exhausts its power to persuade the discontented and the have-nots to accept ballot-box disappointments or compromises if their victories are to be nullified and if elections are effective in shaping policy only when conservatives win.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

Politics turns on emotion.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

I believe the BJP should respect each and every political party, and the BJP should evaluate and consider each party's relevance in Indian politics and then formulate its own strategy.

The dominant color of politics is gray; difficult choices and compromise are required at almost every step of the journey toward a major new program.

Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking your friends.

I don't write off any political party. I believe in strengthening the BJP and winning elections and not depend on writing off parties.

Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.

I have serious doubts about the value of debates in a presidential election. They tend to be a test of reaction time rather than a genuine exposition of the participants' philosophies and programs

Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy to discern, but every election provides lessons worth learning.

Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I was disappointed as a Hillary supporter. But the fact is, is that he won North Carolina and came very close to winning in Indiana after all of the Reverend Wright and after all of the negative attacks. And it seems to me that there were a lot of white Americans who said, "I'm still gonna vote for Obama because I like what he's saying."

Logic and politics have little in common. Successful political ideologies and parties have little in common.

I ended up working on over 150 political campaigns in 42 states; over a third of those were for Republicans. I want to be clear about that. Approximately two-thirds were for Democrats, so, I worked on both sides of the aisle, across the United States.

So that they can actually make it known to the American people before they vote what they're voting for.

What can equal the caprices of politics?

Indian politics has a way of taking a curious turn and surprising the wisest of pundits.