In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.
The tactics and strategy of every Presidential election campaign is most influenced by the previous Presidential election.
It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.
Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes.
Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.
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.
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.
Competition for votes sends parties in a two-party system toward the center.
I'm not a green like most Democrats would be. I have a blue-collar district.
I think it was a miracle that Trump got elected.
The fact is, when you hear the Republican candidates on immigration, when you see them and hear them talk about contraception, mammograms, abortion, and not the economy, it's clear to me they're moving farther and farther away from the mainstream.
Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country.
There is constantly a war going on between the two parties for the populist vote. The populist vote is always the swing vote.
Democratic Party is a party that's just out of touch with who the electorate is and who Americans are.
The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.
The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the - is its outrage.
He who wins the independents wins the White House. That's a liberal Democrat trick, by the way.
I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected.
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.
The framework of the election favors Donald Trump.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Obviously I'm young and I'm also Hispanic, two important groups in this election. And I'm confident that I can do a good job in articulating why President Obama ought to be the candidate that Americans select for the next four years.
I don't think this election is about Hillary Clinton. This election is about Donald Trump.
Forty percent of Americans describe themselves as conservative, 36% independents, and 20% liberal. And these independents are abandoning the Democrat Party in droves. And a key point, they're abandoning the Democrat Party without the Republican Party giving them any reason to go to them. They're just abandoning the Democrats because they don't like what they see.
