"Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube."
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"It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power."
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"The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters."
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"A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet."
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"I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it comes to the confrontation with Islamic Jihadism."
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"Howard Dean came in a disappointing third place. Afterwards Dean said 'Iowa is behind me and now I look forward to screaming at voters in New Hampshire.'"
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"Polls suggest that more and more, opposition to Obamacare is based on voters' personal experience, and not just on what they have heard or read about the law."
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"he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me."
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"My mom was always active. She was always an active voter, whether it was local, state, or federal elections. My mom would take us to polling locations when we were kids."
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"I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters."
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"Every Republican that I know of ran on the full repeal of Obamacare...The voters have spoken."
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"Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage."
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"I do believe that we should have to - make the voters first; not the donors first."
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"I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006."
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"We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about."
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"Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what."
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"Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes."
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"In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters."
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"Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem"
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"The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters."
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