Quotes About Election

Was it possible to change such that it could attract more nonwhite voters, or would it go down the road of using every means possible to fight the demographic trend of declining white voters by making it more difficult for nonwhite voters, particularly black voters, to participate in the election? This was a fundamental battle for the soul of the Republican Party.

Now whenever I hear the loonies on the right asserting that God wanted Trump to win, I always wonder why it didn't occur to them that if God really was involved, he probably could have won the popular vote for Trump. And done it without the Russians' helping.

The President of the United States is addressed by nickname (his or his enemies') before the election and "Mr. President" after taking office. Everybody else in Washington is styled "The Honorable" to make up for what everybody outside of Washington calls them.

'Game Change,' the infamous bestseller written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, has plagued anyone directly associated with the 2008 election cycle.

It's important to know enough about all of the candidates to make an informed choice, and our candidate is Hillary Clinton.

When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.

But what I intend to do, the day after Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States, is to do everything I can to make sure she goes forward as progressively as she can.

We need to do everything in our power to assure the American people that the election system is secured and that outside forces will not interfere.

There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 U.S. election about Russian interference in the electoral process.

Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think we'd be demanding another election.

I do not have any firsthand knowledge of foreign interference in the 2016 election.

I think the Russians have gotten a great return on investment for a very small amount of, of election interference.

Rumour has it that, after his election, Trump declared: "Yesterday, we were on the edge of the abyss but today, we have taken a big step forward!"

They [the Mormons] are a set of horse thieves, liars, and counterfeiters. They'll swear a false oath on any occasion to save another Mormon. They are thieves and knaves and dupes in the bargain, and no property is safe in Daviess County if they continue to pour into this area. If you suffer the Mormons to vote in this election, it will mean the end of your suffrage.

No matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

Obama wins, thus goodness wins.

We now observe this fatal idea: The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, and so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are tendencies that lead downward into degradation.

I thought hard about taking stock on the Labour Party's 120th anniversary. It's not as if my advice is particularly welcome to today's party. But then it occurred to me that there are only two people born in the last 120 years who have actually won an election for Labour. And alas Harold Wilson is long gone.

I think the same feelings that gave rise to Brexit gave rise to the election of Donald Trump. In my view, the important thing for those of us from the progressive side of politics is not just to go in head-on opposition to all that, but to try and work out why it happened, and how we meet the anxieties of people without getting into the politics of fear.

The close election results demonstrated the ability of black voters to decide a race when whites were divided.

Our current predicament cannot be wholly blamed on a suffocating media sector. It cannot be wholly blamed on filter bubbles, trapping citizens in the prison of their own worldviews. It cannot be wholly blamed on Russian sabotage of our presidential election. Hard not to notice, though, that all three of those disabling conditions can be laid at the feet of Facebook.

many in [the NDP] are fundamentally more comfortable with opposition than with the difficulties of power… if we ever actually won an election, they would demand a recount

Milley believed January 6 was a planned, coordinated, synchronized attack on the very heart of American democracy, designed to overthrow the government to prevent the constitutional certification of a legitimate election won by Joe Biden.

By mid-November, his protests notwithstanding, whiskers began sprouting from his face. A few weeks later, his assistant private secretary, John Hay, approvingly punned: Election news Abe's hirsute fancy warrant— Apparent hair becomes heir apparent.44