Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.

But in an American election, there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning we all wake up as Americans. And that -- that is the greatest privilege and the most remarkable good fortune that can come to us on earth.

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

I love election day, and I love to vote.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.