48 Quotes by Bill Schneider

Some people can have sensational moments at the convention, but don't fool yourself. It's all about John Kerry. They're selling something.

That certainly seemed to be true in Georgia and Minnesota.

Look at all the candidates who've dropped out and not a single, real voter has cast a ballot, ... Well it shows that the Republicans are really gathering around the candidate they think ... is a winner and that's George W. Bush. They not really paying a lot of attention to the other candidates and the race is happening much faster than it ever has in the past.

The problem is it's not very powerful in California or downstate New York, where most of the voters are.

The problem is, there wasn't enough of them,

We've had tax cut proposals, one after the other, which is like saying to the American people, 'Would you like the government to give you some money,' and they're not popular. People are saying we don't need the money, we'd rather do something else with it, we'd rather accomplish some public purposes. Well, Bush is trying to hold the Republican Party together and sell it to a fairly skeptical electorate.

Bill Clinton's 1992 convention is the most successful convention on record. Until that convention, Bill Clinton was running behind. Not only was he running behind, he was running third going into the Democratic convention in 1992. Perot was first, Bush was second, and Clinton seemed hopeless. The convention turned everything around,

Even a month ago, it was clear that he did not want to be considered, ... The governor prevailed on him.

The Supreme Court ruled was that the Constitution requires that the allocation of the number of seats for each state has to be done based on an actual count,