#election

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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If you present good government, then elections look after themselves. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#elections #good #good government #government #look

In the United States […] the two main business-dominated parties, with the support of the corporate community, have refused to reform laws that make it virtually impossible to create new political parties (that might appeal to non-business interests) and let them be effective. Although there is marked and frequently observed dissatisfaction with the Republicans and Democrats, electoral politics is one area where notions of competitions and free choice have little meaning. In some respects the caliber of debate and choice in neoliberal elections tends to be closer to that of the one-party communist state than that of a genuine democracy. ↗

— Robert W. McChesney

#corporatism #democracy #democracy-gone-wrong #democratic-party #elections

They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted. ↗

— Conrad Burns

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The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing! ↗

— Tony Campolo

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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#argument #bought #bush #come #election

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

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Natural selection is not evolution. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#natural #natural selection #selection

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#charts #competitive #course #election #formula