Quotes About Election

Look at that face. Would anybody vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president? I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?" (Referring to Carly Fiorina.)46

After a long and lingering illness, evangelicalism died on November 8, 2016. On that day, 81 percent of white American evangelicals who for decades claimed to be concerned about "family values" registered their votes for a twice-divorced, thrice-married, self-confessed sexual predator whose understanding of the faith is so truncated that he can't even fake religious literacy.

In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun.

Ironically, Democrats carrying on about how Republicans had engaged in dirty tricks to steal the 1980 election was a dirty trick to steal the 1992 election. The

If the Russians were trying to swing the election to Trump, their message was a little confused. They sponsored groups supporting Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jill Stein, Black Lives Matter, Muslims, Christians, and "Heart of Texas," among others. Some were even supportive of Hillary. Again, this is according to Mueller's own indictment. Is he holding the good stuff back?

It's the right decision, Crawford.

Trump's talent stack is so strong that I believe he could make almost any basket of policies sound good to the public. I will go so far as to say that Trump could have run as a Democrat, embraced Bernie Sanders's entire platform, and won the election that way.

The popular interpretation of how Trump won is that he understood the American people and devised policies that they wanted. My filter says the opposite. It says Trump convinced the public that his policies were the ones they should care about the most. And so they did. Obviously every voter is different, and one variable doesn't explain an election. But my point is that persuasion was more important to the outcome than policies; we just perceive it to be the other way around.

If you think Trump's policies got him elected, you have to explain why his positions substantially changed during the campaign and he still won. My filter explains it perfectly: Trump is so persuasive that policies didn't matter. People voted for him even as his policies were murky and changing.

Going into the Republican Party National Convention, in all objective truth, our non?winning front?runners are the sorriest collection of stuffed shirts, empty suits, self?gratulatory ignorami, and outright wig?flipped ding?dongs in the history of the Republic.

This man, Trump. There is no way he could be president. Okay, just take my word for it. It was never going to happen.

Damn right I voted for him. But if I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote—I'd have cast a brick.

It seems harsh to many to think that God chooses some and rejects others, and does not consider men's worth, that by his own free will he chooses whom he pleases and moreover rejects others. But what is this scruple except a desire to call God to order and subject him to their judgment?

Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.

Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

Christ is indeed presented to all, but God opens the eyes of the elect alone, and enables them by faith to seek after him. The

Whence follows the plain conclusion, that if all men were elected, no man would perish.

he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.

the reason for God's keeping some for himself and rejecting others is to be sought nowhere but in God himself. When

Therefore, God's foreknowledge cannot be the reason of our election, because when God [looks into the future and] surveys all mankind, he will find them all, from the first to the last, under the same curse.

And surely it is an amazing counsel of God that when he had the whole earth in his hands he chose his people out of the contemptible folk, rather than out of the upper classes who might have brought the name of Christ greater credit through their own excellencies.

in the freest manner, and on no mercenary   grounds, does God bestow upon us his love and favor, just as, when we   were not yet born, and when he was prompted by nothing but his own   will, he fixed upon us his choice. [111]

But we are not to forget that the stability of our salvation is not in us but in the secret election of God.

Unless God himself had by his election redeemed us from ruin, there would have been nothing but ruin to foresee. .