Election Outcome Quotes

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

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.

The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district.

The people are always worsted in an election.

The ballots don’t make the results—the counters make the results.

I think he could win, absolutely. I think he could win because there's Trump supporters out there who aren't even revealing themselves as such. For me, that's a scary prospect because I think he'd be a disastrous president.

Candidates matter. Campaigns matter. 'He can win' or 'She can't win' is up there with, 'I'm going to lose 10 pounds, win the lottery, and live forever.' Saying it does not make it so.

Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.

We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.

South Carolina put George H.W. Bush into the White House. But George W. Bush into the White House and sent Jeb Bush back to Miami.

If we didn't have the Electoral College there would have been no George W. Bush presidency. Algore would have been elected. The Democrats have not gotten over that, and they never will get over the recount, the aftermath of that election in 2000. They are still animated by it today. It is a significant portion of the rage and anger they carry around with them every day, so they want to get rid of it.

Democrats losing elections. Donald Trump did win this. It's not illegitimate. And when the day comes that they realize and sober up that he's not going to be hounded out of office, that he's not gonna wake up one day and say to Mike Pence, "Here. Take the keys. I've had it." Then what are they gonna do? Because they're shooting every barrel they've got now. And they will probably continue. The think least we can make people hate him.

What I find shocking is that there's this thought process that Hillary Clinton is going to be president of the United States, and to even think of Donald Trump is a joke.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing; the people who count the votes decide everything.

TV is set up to be just a shout fest: Is this good for Republicans or bad for Republicans; is this good for Cain or bad for Cain... tell me something that I need to know.

The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.

Law of Diminishing Returns: As the popularity of a candidate approaches zero, the probability that he or she will release a wildly bizarre video approaches 1.

The only reason we won this election is that money does not vote. You do!

When Corbyn was elected, I found there was a lot to welcome there.

They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger.

Popular elections are uncertain.

It was a good election, a good campaign, and a good friend won.