#electoral

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more. ↗

— Nick Clegg

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Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

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I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered. ↗

— Tom Hayden

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The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

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My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility. ↗

— Tim Kaine

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

— Paul Wellstone

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When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

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It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

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Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

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As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them. ↗

— James McGreevey

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