Rush Limbaugh Quotes

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

Early polls mean nothing.

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

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.

As problems have grown more complex, leaders have struggled to find the language to discuss them clearly, credibly and at the right emotional amplitude. Nonplussed and tongue-tied, politicians give themselves over to message gurus … who peddle the notion that poll-tested words — honed and targeted with scientific precision — can pick the lock of public opinion.

If the election had been held on October 27, I would be your President.

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

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.

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day 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.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.

Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

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

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

This could be a close election. I can pretty much tell which states are going to be close. If you would start two or three weeks before Election Day and saturate those critical states with [TV Advertising] spots, it could swing the election.

Pete Wilson was never more than the sum total of his focus groups.

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

Politicians livelihoods depend on what people think.