Quotes About Voters

it's so pathetically easy to set big groups of voters off angrily chasing their own tails in response to media-manufactured nonsense

Given that most actual voters were sunk in debt, working multiple jobs, uninsured, saddled with ruined credit scores, and often battling alcohol and opiate addiction and other problems, it was a horrific aristocratic insult to tell people each election cycle that what really mattered to them was what candidate looked most convincing carrying a rifle on a duck hunt.

In the elaborate con that is American electoral politics, the Republican voter has long been the easiest mark in the game, the biggest dope in the room. Everyone inside the Beltway knows this. The Republican voters themselves are the only ones who never saw it. Elections

Ultimately, what we're looking for is someone who's enough of a morally flexible gasbag to get over with the money people, and then also charming enough on some politically irrelevant level to attract voters. (

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.

Republicans can continue to win elections nationally for a few more years by relying on a base of older, less educated white voters, but that strategy will prove less and less successful as the number of people of color continues to grow. By 2044, whites are expected to be a minority in America—very bad news for a party that has alienated everyone who isn't white.

I am subject to constant criticism all day long," the president told me in our Oval Office discussion. "And some of it may be legitimate; much of it may be illegitimate. Some of it may be sincere; some of it may be entirely politically motivated. If I spent all my time thinking about it, I'd be paralyzed. And frankly, the voters would justifiably say, 'I need somebody who's focused on giving me a job, not whether his feelings are hurt.

For Trump and his most dedicated confederates there was only one truly reliable issue: illegal immigration. In Trump's short political history, the issue had never failed to inspire and activate core voters.

los partidos políticos sirven (o deberían servir) de intermediarios entre la gente y su gobierno. Su función es conectar los deseos y necesidades de los votantes con las actividades y decisiones del gobierno. A

An astute observer wrote in 1924 that American voters preferred to "cherish the unrealities they have absorbed" based upon "the primal instinct to defeat the side they hate or fear.

democracy of manners," which was not the same as real democracy. He meant that voters accepted huge disparities in wealth but at the same time expected their elected leaders to "cultivate the appearance of being no different from the rest of us."68 The

democracy of manners," which was not the same as real democracy. He meant that voters accepted huge disparities in wealth but at the same time expected their elected leaders to "cultivate the appearance of being no different from the rest of us.

The question loomed: At what point does commonness cease to be an asset, as a viable form of populism, and become a liability for a political actor? And should anyone be shocked when voters are swept up in an "almost Elvis-sized following," as Cavett said Palin's supporters were? When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Los políticos, en la democracia, son los condensadores de la imbecilidad.

in a democracy the great leaders are allowed to lead only because they are elected.

A lot of nonvoters have a very hazy understanding of what the government does and what levels of government carry out which functions. But almost everyone cares about what happens in their own communities.