Abandon Quote by Nate Silver

The latest national polls show a tightening in the race to the White House, especially in key states like Ohio and Florida. But when…

— Gwen Ifill

In the 2012 election, the polls that had made Mitt Romney so confident that he was going to win were his own internal polls,…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that…

— Dan Quayle

Whatever the polls do between now and then, winning is what matters.

— Nigel Farage

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

Don't rely on the president to win you the race. You can have the president help you. Use the popularity that he has. That…

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

Stay away from national polls. They are always an illusion. They will always trick you into stupid political behavior.

— Rick Wilson

There is a route to the presidency in this country, and it's called the Electoral College, and both candidates base their campaigns on winning…

— Rush Limbaugh

If I worried about pollsters, I wouldn't be president.

— Jose Mujica

The only future Barack Obama is trying to win is his own reelection.

— Sarah Palin

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.

— Rosalynn Carter

Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes.…

— John F. Kerry