Allan Lichtman Quotes

I've learned a long time ago not to take polls too seriously.

I have never seen a poll elect anyone

I don't look at polls.

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

Polls are only good for dogs.

I'd rather be underestimated by the polltakers than by the voters.

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

Our leaders now are entirely spooked by polls.

I don't put a lot of stock into polls.

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.

The polls tell us something, but they don't tell us everything. They don't tell us how people are going to show up on Election Day.

I don't put too much stock in polls.

I believe that the polling data that shows people give Obama 53% approval, I happen to think the polls are right. I just think people are not being honest with the pollster.

Whatever the polls do between now and then, winning is what matters.

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.

We may blunder on in spite of repeated miscalculations of the popular will

The last thing you want to do is read the latest poll and then make policy.

Polls move money as much as money moves polls.

Forget the polls and remember the people.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Polls give candidates a method to find out what voters want.