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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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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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The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

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Simply because one is Black or Latino or lesbian or gay or whatever does not guarantee the person’s fidelity to a body of politics that empowers the particular constituency that they supposedly represent. The number of black elected officials has risen from 100 in 1964 to more than 9000 today. The number of African Americans who were in congress 30 years ago was about five; today it is over 40, an 800 percent increase. But have Blacks experienced an 800 percent increase in real power? It hasn’t happened. So, I think the emphasis of this liberal notion of social change by working solely within the established electoral system is just fatally flawed. ↗

— Manning Marable

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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

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They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council. ↗

— John Hume

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I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico. ↗

— Vicente Fox

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It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush. ↗

— George Galloway

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Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

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