Quotes About Election

Nineteen seventy-six come and bring an election with it. The man who bring guns to the ghetto made it clear, that there is no way that socialist government should win again.

People think it way past the time when anybody can remember who start things first, but don't get the history of the ghetto twist up, decent people. Buntin-Banton and Dishrag start it first. And when PNP win the 1972 election all hell break loose. First

The 1888 presidential election would go down as the most corrupt in the history of the United States.

Caesar instantly convened an assembly to elect one of his friends, Caius Caninius Rebilus, to the vacant post for just half a day. This prompted a flood of jokes from Cicero: Caninius was such an extraordinarily vigilant consul that 'he never once went to sleep in his whole term of office'; 'in

The first qualification for most political offices was wealth on a substantial scale. No one could stand for election without passing a financial test that excluded most citizens;

Hell, we elected a demagogue last election in this country. People made some comparisons to Hitler.

Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy's—that's usually the way this business works.

After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind's eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.

Get your liver ready: the second GOP debate is upon us S

Donald Trump, if elected, would find a way to turn being the president into a moneymaking operation. Sanders

One additional bizarre Trump-inspired change to reporting that took place in 2016 involved polls: we increasingly ignored data favorable to Trump and pushed surveys suggesting a Clinton landslide. The Times ran a piece in October pronouncing the race essentially over, telling us to expect a "sweeping victory at every level" for Clinton.

Election Day, 2016 was a historic blow to American journalism. It was as if we'd invaded Iraq and discovered there were no WMDs in the same few hours.

We made a joke of it during the Occupy protests, when "Why are they so angry?" somehow became a common news feature assignment after a fraud-ridden financial services sector put millions in foreclosure and vaporized as much as 40 percent of the world's wealth. More recently, we've cycled through a series of unconvincing responses to Why do they hate us?—themed stories like Brexit, the Bernie Sanders primary run of 2016, and the election of Donald Trump.

An oft-cited Gallup poll taken just after the 2016 election showed just 20 percent of Americans expressed "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers. An 80 percent no-confidence vote would be cause for concern in most professions.

For many are called, but few are chosen.

For the first time since 1856, the Republican Party did not issue a platform.

We have two candidates with the highest unfavorables ever recorded and a majority of voters who feel stuck voting against, rather than for, someone. Both parties nominated the only person who could possibly lose to the other. Voters are agonizing about whether they can trust either candidate.

I swilled a Scotch and took some sleeping pills—something I don't normally do—and tried to sleep. And, yes, I know you're not supposed to combine sedatives with alcohol, but you're also not supposed to elect a bigoted bully as president of the United States.

I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!

Our only hope is to control the vote.

Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States.

It helped that municipal employees tore down opposition posters, and that the only independent pollster, Levada, was closed down two weeks before the election.

And then Donald Trump won.

Barack Obama is elected for another four-year term, he'll be president for life. He'll be the new Hugo Chavez. He'll do away with the two-term limit and win the 2016 election with 90 percent of the vote. We have less than six months to make sure this doesn't happen.