Voter Behavior Quotes

Talking about [Donald] Trump, there's nothing wrong with Trump. He's who he is. It's wrong with us, who let him [win]. That's what's wrong. It's not that he's going to change, but the people who think like him.

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

Woman suffrage has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman’s vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.

If you can't control these rumheads when you're their candidate, how the hell do you expect to control them if you become President?

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

People should not be voting based on caste, religion, money, or liquor but real issues that affect their lives.

In the past, in order to continue as a candidate, a serious candidate, you had to be in the top three finishes in Iowa. You had to be in the top two out of New Hampshire. All our presidents elected in the past half-century finished either first or second in New Hampshire and in the top three in Iowa. That changed with the Citizens United, when we gave unlimited amounts of money.

The liberals are this way. When they lose elections, they don't look inward and ask what they did wrong. They look at you and ask, "Why are you so stupid? How in the world could you have not voted for us?".

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

Competition for votes sends parties in a two-party system toward the center.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

Good economics is good politics.

There is constantly a war going on between the two parties for the populist vote. The populist vote is always the swing vote.

Education level has become the great divider in contemporary American politics, eclipsing race and sex. Those with four-year college degrees tend to vote differently than those without.

People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.

If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?

We liked to think that polling and political analysis had become scientific, but this campaign changes all that.

There are voters out there that a moralistic and populist conservative right might win but a flagrantly hypocritical and ethnonationalist conservatism cannot.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.

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.

Voters are not great at reading issues. They are great at reading character.

Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.

People elected Donald Trump because he acts decisively. He fired James Comey. He didn't fire the entire FBI. If there's something there, the FBI is going to continue to investigate it.