Allan Lichtman Quotes

United States, Historian
April 4, 1947

Allan Jay Lichtman is an American political historian who teaches at American University in Washington, D.C. He is well known for predicting most of the presidential winners in the United States Presidential Election since 1984, including forecasting the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election remarkably early.

Also known as Teacher

He ran the first pop culture campaign to show that he was an ordinary person and it was incredibly effective, things really began to change in the 1960s with the use of pop culture TV.

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I'm not a psychic. I don't look at a crystal ball.

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There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.

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- Time
- Change
- Politics
The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.

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- Water
- Argument
- Holds
Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose.

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- Lose
- Conservative
- Obama
The danger is falling on your face and some candidates have had trouble with it, but most of these guys are really slick.

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- Trouble
- Danger
- Guys
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

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