“The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid.” PoliticalGamesPartyLeaderIndependentElectionReformPresidentialRipeEmergencePolitical LeadersPresidential Election Author:Ron Fournier
“The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.” PoliticalEconomyEconomicWeakElectionCongressIncomeInequalityPresidentialThemeDominantPresidential ElectionIncome InequalityEconomic InequalityGridlock Author:Steven Rattner
“Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast -- give or take a college town here or a ski resort there. During the course of every presidential election for the past forty years now, Republicans have sought to wield the word liberal as if it were a six-gauge shotgun.” IfsGivingYearsPastPoliticalCoursesNationsStepsCollegeRepublicanSixTownsElectionTreatedPresidentialFortyPropositionsResortsSkisPresidential ElectionGaugesPunditsTruismShotguns Book:Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals Source: Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals
“The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.” Has BeensGovernmentPoliticalLyingRealizingLeaderWiseGrowingChildhoodVoteIncreaseElectionIndependenceTendenciesPresidentialVotersProvenPolitical LeadersPresidential Election Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt