Polling Data Quotes

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.

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

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.

I think if Hillary Clinton had come on 'Fox & Friends,' she would have gotten so many more votes, especially if she had done it over and over and over.

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.

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.

Whether you like it or not, Santorum is as good as President Obama with a crowd.

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

I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.

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

I've had many conversations with the Clinton family. We're friends. It's hard, very tough. I think on Election Day, everybody felt pretty good. I think the Trump campaign thought they were gonna lose.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

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

If Donald Trump is the candidate against Hillary Clinton, then I will be supporting Donald Trump.

Popularity has always been the key currency in choosing a president.

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

The candidate who is successful in defining the election is usually the winner.

Trump won 44.4 percent of votes in Virginia in 2016. At press time, Ed Gillespie had won 45 percent of the vote in 2017.

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.

Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.

Don't fall in love with the map. The map doesn't win elections.

Donald Trump is running this campaign. And I'm working directly for Donald Trump.

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them.