Voting Patterns Quotes

Because, Bill, I think we’ve given the South away to the Republican party for as long as anyone can foresee.

The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

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.

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.

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.

How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday.

Women are not all single-issue voters.

What is the difference between a Democrat and a Republican? A Democrat blows, a Republican sucks.

There are some voters who are rather traditional and have some reservations about electing a woman leader. But the younger generation are excited to have a woman leader for the country. They think it is somewhat trendy.

Ohio chose the president in 2000 and 2004. The independent voters, the so-called swing voters, are the ones who make the difference.

Yes, of course, black Americans are a special group, and I'm disappointed that they're not Republicans, given our traditions. We're not getting much love in return, despite our efforts.

As Maine goes, so goes Vermont.

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

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.

In most countries, class, education, religion, and regions are better predictors of voting behavior than sex.

The poor don't vote all the time.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.