Certainty Quote by Jason Johnson

Polling can only tell us so much. It captures a moment in time that can be sustainable or utterly fleeting. It can also be…

— Jessica Tarlov

The drama of any election night often obscures the banal reality behind voting. Even when winners and losers are clear, it takes time to…

— Jamelle Bouie

In fact, there is no law that says election results must come the same day as the election. Historically, they used to take days.

— Heather Cox Richardson

The exit poll is always the first big moment of the election night.

— Cathy Newman

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what…

— John Podhoretz

I was surprised that when you get into electoral politics how scientific the analysis was in the electorate. You can identify on a state-by-state…

— Bill Foster

Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

— Anand Giridharadas

I think the interesting thing about elections, as someone who has run through a couple of them, is that people are so busy in…

— Michelle Wu

I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

— Judy Woodruff

It only takes around 60 seconds to cast your vote in the polling station. 60 seconds to protect the economy, 60 seconds to protect…

— Ross Kemp

Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention…

— Norman Tebbit

Elections are always a Rorschach test - people look at the results and see what they want to see.

— Anne Applebaum