Mara Liasson Quotes

If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.

As those states and others in the South and West become more diverse and educated, they will become harder for the Republican Party - in its current form - to win.

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

If [Hillary] Clinton can come close in those two traditionally red states, it will be because of the diverse, educated populations around Atlanta and Phoenix. And it will be a sign that Arizona and Georgia are on their way to becoming the new battleground states.

North Carolina used to be reliably red. Now it's a battleground state.

North Carolina was never a battleground state until recently. Now it is, and it's because of migration from the Northeast.

We have some states that I think are very competitive in that no Republican has ever been competitive in.

The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.

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.

If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.

Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

A [Presidential] candidate, confident of winning or sure of losing a bare majority of a state’s popular vote has no reason to expend resources there.

Florida has been, and will continue to be, a swing state.

It's very clear that Louisiana is gonna be voting for Republicans for statewide elections going forward because that's just where we are as a state.

The UKIP voter is 60 percent male, 40 percent female. Is 65 percent older than 55 and 35 percent younger than 55. It's not hard to work out. Some have been Labor. Some have been Tories. The most difficult thing is previous voting intention, because they're coming from across the board.

You have to understand that for the most part in New York, whoever gets the Democratic nomination wins.

The Democrat Party, particularly with demographic shifts taking, would love to get rid of the Electoral College.

In 2012, Hispanics were 10 percent of the electorate, underperforming their share of the voting-age population. Mitt Romney got 21 percent of their vote, and [Donald] Trump has been polling much lower than that.

You're probably bored now hearing me cite how many seats the Democrats lost nationwide, national, state, local, in those three elections, In the 2010 midterms, the 2014 midterms, and in 2016. It's over 1500 seats.

We flipped over 200 counties that President [Barack] Obama won and Donald Trump just won, you [Jennifer Palmieri] think that's because of what you just said or because people aren't ready for a woman president?

I think after Sam Nunn left, I'm the last guy in the Senate who got a majority white male vote in their state.

The Republican Party cannot win the White House anymore with just conservative and Republican votes.

How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

The Republican Party had a big day in yesterday's midterm elections and now controls the House and Senate. And don't ask me how this happened, but the Republican Party also gained control of three seats in our show's band.