William Kristol Quotes About Elections

Quotes about: Elections

• Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

  William Kristol

  Issues, Stripes, Important

  "Will Obama Save Liberalism?" by William Kristol, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 2009.

• The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

  William Kristol

  Average, Giving, Presidential

• It's been an unusual election [2016].

  William Kristol

  Election, Unusual

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I was "Never Trump." But it turned out never republican was really the theme of this election.

  William Kristol

  Election, Republican, Trump

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing about this election - is that once there's an incumbent running for reelection, most of the debate is about, "Has he [Barack Obama] done a good job?" Most of the judgment is, "Do you want to keep him or do you want to replace him?" Now, the opponent has to also be acceptable and has to make his own case.

  William Kristol

  Running, Jobs, Character

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

• Some journalists just get too wrapped up in daily news cycles and tempests in a teapot that are not going to make any difference. As someone who is older and has been through a few election cycles, maybe this is just being an old fogey, but I think I know what's going to really matter and what's not.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Differences, News

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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