#electoral

Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. ↗

— Mo Rocca

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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

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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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My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility. ↗

— Tim Kaine

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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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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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