Compared to Congress, BJP is spending huge money in the elections. BJP keeps claiming that it is not corrupt. Then where is it getting such huge monies from?
In just three years, Iraq has achieved immense progress. It has had three successful elections in which 80% of their citizens voted, even while being threatened with death.
Elections are about choices, and part of what you do is draw that contrast.
We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It’s a joke. It doesn’t enforce the law.
Historically, there hasn’t been a significant correlation between gold prices and U.S. elections. Furthermore, history has shown that gold prices tend to fall just before U.S. elections and rise immediately after, and this goes on until the next election.
Voting is how we participate in a civic society – be it for president, be it for a municipal election. It’s the way we teach our children – in school elections – how to be citizens, and the importance of their voice.
The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.
You talk about the values that you have whether they’re in favor or not in favor. That’s how you lead. The reality is, we’re losing more and more elections.
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.
Some of the immediate causes of Jack Abramoff’s troubles were some Indian elections that went bad for him.
We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans are thrilled with the results; the other half are profoundly disappointed.
Here’s the deal: when conservatives lose elections, they change their strategy. When liberals lose elections, they want to change the rules.
Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.
Voluntary public funding of elections solves the free speech ‘problem’ with more speech instead of more regulation: by giving qualified candidates who show broad-based constituent support enough matching public funds to mount a credible campaign.
Elections are an enduring spectacle of free India, and have provided foreign journalists with the opportunity to remind the world that India remains the world’s largest democracy.
Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that’s what we don’t want to be. We don’t want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.
In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections… Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.
Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections.
Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
I am not a pundit or a psephologist and thus not in the business of calling elections.
The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.
Whether it’s Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana or Odisha, we have seen similar patterns – hostile local politics transform into conciliation of some kind after the state elections.
