Electoral Defeat Quotes

We have lost the elections; and it is natural that each of us will believe, and say, it has been because his peculiar views was not made sufficiently prominent.

Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations.

Honey, there go 20 million votes, but we’ll get over it.

The biggest threat to the Trump movement is that Republicans in office demoralize our base because the only way we win now is by driving turnout among our voters. And if our voters just think we're weak, we don't fight, we don't do the things we say when we get elected? Then there is no future for us.

The Tory party must learn from its own history that when we fight each other, you can guarantee to lose.

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

You really can't go back to the Senate after running for President .... The danger of running for the Presidency is that if you don't make it—and that's the case for almost everyone who tries—then you are considered a failure.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected

We will vote for the special interests and say lots of luck but, you're being voted out of power.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out. These are disadvantages all, taken together, that the Republicans labor under. We have to fight this battle upon principal and upon principal, alone.

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time until there is a final collapse of support and pivotal electoral shift.

Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.

If Dems don't stick together, we're going to lose.

I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

The John McCain I first started to get to know in earnest was the one who had just returned to the U.S. Senate after losing the 2000 Republican presidential primary.

Mitt Romney we think is going run again. He says he has no plans to run, but he said if he did run, this time things would turn out differently. Yes they would. This time he would get his ass kicked by a woman.

The [Republican] party has no future. It can’t win with a base that is at war with math, physics, human biology, economics, and common-sense gun laws all at the same time.

… the truth is Walter Mondale in 1984 had a perfectly unified campaign — every interest group was behind him …. In party politics, unity is very much overrated.

A political genius is a man ... who has accidentally been on the winning side in the last campaign and is about to be on the losing side.

Republicans didn’t lose their majority. We lost our way.

The Democratic support against Barker [72 to 25] was so strong that they didn't even need us Republicans.