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General Election Quotes
On campaigns, turnout, and the results voters live with.
These general election quotes discuss the mechanics of campaigns, from convention speeches to base turnout, alongside the simple fact that voters cannot rerun an Election whose result they dislike. Polling reliability comes up more than once.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings and feeling what a relief to live in a country with a Tory government again.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a general election result you don't like, you don't have another general election.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.
- Commuting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being told after the 1992 general election that Labour could never win a majority in Britain ever again.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still going to be freezing public sector wages, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering 'austerity light' instead of a real alternative.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big learnings both out of the referendum, and out of 2017 general election is that parties that don't have a professional network on the ground slightly lose the ability to hear what local people are saying, so we've reestablished our network of campaign managers out in the field.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to perform Bernie Sanders and give his boring percentages and fact-based points to address some ridiculous Trumpisms, because that was always my fantasy for what the general election would look like.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I have moderated two general election debates - in 2004 and 2008 - I know better than to carp from the sidelines. I am confident in my accomplishment of having had Queen Latifah portray me on 'Saturday Night Live' both years.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020