Quotes About Electoral

It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures

Democracy is about electoral competition.

Sometimes in politics, you get a wallop in the electoral process.

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

In the nineties, the PT had wrongly decided to attribute its electoral failures to its virtues.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

The root of democracy is in mass education. This foundation becomes stronger, when the citizens of tomorrow, our children are also educated about the electoral process.

That raised an issue still familiar in modern electoral systems. Are Members of Parliament, for example, to be seen as delegates of the voters, bound to follow the will of their electorate? Or are they representatives, elected to exercise their own judgement in the changing circumstances of government? This

No minor-party candidate has ever won the presidency or, for that matter, even come close. For the most part, these ego-driven 'independent' adventures in electoral narcissism push the political process further away from their supporters' professed goals, rather than advancing the insurgent group's agenda or ideas.

Curieusement, les pays occidentaux étaient extrêmement fiers de ce système électif qui n'était pourtant guère plus que le partage du pouvoir entre deux gangs rivaux, ils allaient même parfois jusqu'à déclencher des guerres afin de l'imposer

Liberal hand-wringing over the electoral victory of the far-right in Italy will not extend to its core ideology: anti-migration. The EU will continue to support Italy's abandonment and terrorizing of people on the move. Anti-migrant politics truly is the fascist foot in the door.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.