“‘The same old Washington textbook campaigns just won’t do.’ Deploring ‘triangulating and poll-driven positions,’ he said that ‘telling the American people what we think they want to hear instead of telling the American people what they need to hear just won’t do.’ The Democratic party had been at its best, he told the crowd, when ‘we led, not by polls, but by principles; not by calculation, but by conviction.’”

--Barack Obama, Democratic Senator from Illinois, November 10th, 2007.