Voter Quotes

[Democrats voiced their argument that Bush is too extreme on abortion for most voters.] Republicans try to avoid the issue to get nominated... They never can. - Joe Andrew

[Democratic strategist Rick Thigpen said it's about time.] They have an enormous challenge, faced by every Democratic candidate, of mobilizing voters in urban and suburban communities, mobilizing women and people of color... Our base is more complex than the Republican base, and Jon has to be out there. I think they were late, but they are beginning to tackle the challenge. - Rick Thigpen

[Democratic manager Bill Carrick can find no escape route from Davis' budget crisis:] Every option he has now is bad. Whatever you propose to do, voters do not like. ... Do you invite him to appear on the platform with your candidate? Do you use him to raise money? Does the nominee risk appointing, or rejecting, the governor to be the campaign's state chairman? - Bill Carrick

[Daschle called the ad] repulsive... I didn't catch any flak from real voters, from people in South Dakota. There was no blowback at all. - Tim Johnson

[Cities can't make foreign policy, we know. But their voters can demand that their representatives do so. San Francisco's did that last Fall, and since all polls show opposition to the war only increasing since then, the urgency of our representatives' supporting] the immediate withdrawal ... urging Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Tom Lantos to add their names to the list of Representatives sponsoring H.Con.Res.35. - Lynn Woolsey

[Camp Kerry is releasing a new TV ad targeting women and national security voters, and any combination of the two. The new spot, called] Ever Since... I fought for the 9/11 commission, something George W. Bush, the man my husband, Ron, and I voted for, didn't think was necessary. - Kristen Breitweiser

[But] we're in a 20-day race where everything matters... It's going to be extremely close, with undecided voters making up their minds right up to the day before election day. - Scott Reed

[Bush's promise to name conservatives justices,] more than perhaps any other, charged me and millions of other values voters across the land to vote for Mr. Bush... presents the most important opportunity we may have for decades to stop the nation's courts from stripping away our Judeo- Christian heritage. - Tony Perkins