#elections

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#elections #notoriously #presidents

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence. ↗

— Mark Shields

#agreements #broke #completely #consequence #eastern

I've been in a lot of elections. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#elections #i #lot

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#elections #government #political-science #politics-observation #politics-science

Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong… This [is] mostly BS. ↗

— Jeffrey A. Miller

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#adherents #any #candidates #claimed #class

Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#attention #attorney #because #board #city

We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better. ↗

— Joan Blades

#better #elections #got #much #percent

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

#did #elections #families #federal #had

Tony Blair - good thing there are not parliamentary elections in this country. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#country #elections #good #good thing #parliamentary