#votes

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

— Robert A. Dahl

#electoral #popular #proportion #require #votes

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#collective #conscious #fear #hate #here

The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#democratic #democratic party #opportunity #party #progressives

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#assured #been #counted #denied #elections

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes. ↗

— Alveda King

#democrats #discussion #economic #economic growth #fought

What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties. ↗

— William Hepworth Thompson

#devotes #duties #his #neglect #person

I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls. ↗

— Pia Toscano

#because #boy #competition #could #deserves

Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#believe #cater #congress #controlled #democrats

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#bottom #bottom line #interests #line #matter

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. ↗

— Robert Charles Winthrop

#education #emancipation #freeman #half #hands