#election

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#ballot #community #elections #first #give

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win. ↗

— Imran Khan

#election #gain #got #had #us

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#bush #election #ever #george #george bush

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority. ↗

— David Suzuki

#election #environment #go #high #high priority

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? ↗

— Barack Obama

#about #cynicism #election #end #in the end

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#find #make #possible #reason #seek

We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#could #election #figures #gay #gay movement

Maybe what stopped people from voting wasn't a lack of information about the candidates or a feeling that the outcomes of races didn't matter or a sense that a trip to the polls was inconvenient. What if voting wasn't only a political act, but a social one that took place in a liminal space between the public and private that had never been well-defined to citizens? What if toying with those expectations was key to turning a person into a voter? What if elections were simply less about shaping people's opinions than changing their behaviors? ↗

— Sasha Issenberg

#elections #change

Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing. ↗

— Neil Postman

#elections #irrelevance #media #nate-silver #news

President Obama's reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans can agree on changes to current law, the U.S. economy will be in recession by spring. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#agree #changes #cliff #current #current law