#elections

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#cast #counted #elections #fashion #federal

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#democrats #despair #elections #favor #gloomy

Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections. ↗

— George Montgomery

#democracy #elections #free #like #such

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#fair #free #important #itself #more

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#brought #conclusion #constitutional #elections #european

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.' ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#always #best #done #elections #especially

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way. ↗

— Mike Pence

#few #just #lose #lost #our

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#bodies #branches #direct #elections #exception

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us. ↗

— Mitt Romney

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