Jerry Polinard Quotations

Four years ago, expectations were unjustifiably higher than they should have been. Tony Sanchez was more of a preview of coming attractions, just a little bit premature.

What we generally find is there is a minimum amount that must be spent to be competitive. If you're going to play, you're going to have to be willing to pay.

The anti-Perry (voter) might decide, 'What the hey, if it's good enough for Minnesota, it's good enough for us.

Both parties are strongly going after the Latino vote. . . . It is simply inevitable that (Latinos) will become the critical vote in the state. Demography is destiny.

You hear an awful lot of talk recently about each party trying to play to its base. We're not just the strongest Democratic region in the state, we're arguably the strongest Democratic region in the nation.

(Early voting) is always a time which the best-organized candidates have a little more of an advantage. The better-organized candidates can get their people to the polls early.

In a race that close, it could have turned the tide.

In terms of a statewide race, I think he would be a formidable opponent. The problem he might have would be winning his primary.

You've got to have money to run. And by definition, getting money from traditional party sources against an incumbent governor is going to be extraordinarily difficult. Perry's locked that stuff up.