Voter Quotes

[Benson's re-entry] changes things because there's another strong candidate in the race... In the end, the voters are better served by having a broader choice. Holly is certainly a capable woman. - Scott Henderson

[Austin aides have their focus groups too, and they claim the vice president's aggressiveness only rankles, reminding voters of the ugly noises from the past four or five years in Washington, the showdowns and shutdowns. The less partisan voters, says the campaign, like Bush's happy soundings of cooperation.] Among swing voters, they don't care about the party labels... They want things solved. - Matthew Dowd

[1. The integrity of the polls comes into question. That Texas is playing in the Rose Bowl instead of Cal is not by itself an injustice. You can make plenty of arguments in favor of either 10-1 team. What is ridiculous is the way the Longhorns got in, sitting on their couch while Cal traveled across the country and won at Southern Miss -- but apparently not by enough for the tens of voters who moved Texas up and the Bears down in their final poll, knowing exactly what the ramifications were when they did it.] If you have to go in and blow people out... that doesn't serve the integrity of the game. - Jeff Tedford

(Voters) wish there were an election right now. - Jay Lapeyre

(Voters) wanted to see accountability. - Gretchen Warner

(Voters) are not going to accept criticism as the sole source of messaging by the Democrats. - Al Cardenas

(Prime Minister Junichiro) Koizumi's Liberal Democratic Party focused on a single issue of pros and cons regarding postal privatization--and the voters' attention was diverted to it. - Katsuya Okada