“We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about.” ConcernedVoters Author:Keith Ellison
“One of the things I think is very likely is that with the prospects of robust fiscal stimulus in response to voters mad as hell, the Fed is going to be in there with helicopter money. In other words, they're going to be buying whatever the Treasury issues. They're not going to, in effect, advocate strong fiscal stimulus and then not finance it. And that's helicopter money.” ThinkingStrongHellIssuesEffectsMadResponseFinanceBuyingFedsVotersStimulusProspectsRobustTreasuryHelicopters Author:Gary Shilling
“Hillary Clinton did try to reach out to the Sanders voters with policy concessions, but Sanders voters, especially his most activist core, are process people. They're not policy wonks. They're people who want big money out of politics. They're people who want fairness from the DNC chair. They're people who want every vote to count. They're the people who don't like Wall Street money. Right? They're primarily about the process of politics and whether or not it's fair and whether or not big-money elites are rigging things in your favor.” PeopleWantTryingBigsProcessStreetsPolicyWallFairsVoteClintonFavorsCoreChairsActivistVotersReach OutElitesFairnessConcessions Author:Van Jones
“A lot of liberals think all the Trump voters are a part of the alt right, neo Nazi camp, which is not true. That's a tiny, tiny slice.” ThinkingTrumpTinyVotersCampsNazi Author:Van Jones
“With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good. But, without anybody acknowledging it, there is now this little camp of folks who come across as very elitist, that look down on red state voters, who think that Republicans are dumb people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLooksLittlesStatesPartyRepublicanRedDemocratStriveFolksDumbVotersCampsElitistDumb People Author:Van Jones
“During the campaign [Donald Trump] talked about reaching out to African- American voters in particular. He talked about inner cities in a way that did offend some people. Lot of Democrats. Some African- Americans of saying what have you got to lose.” PeopleWayLosesCitiesParticularTrumpDemocratCampaignsAfrican AmericanReachingVotersReach OutInner CityAmerican Voters Author:Anderson Cooper
“That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available, to direct attention away from the roots of the distress which you're suffering. This combines with xenophobia, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, and other quite unpleasant phenomena which are far from being eradicated. All of this makes for a pretty dangerous brew. But economic issues are right in the center of it. And you can see this in the fact that so many former Obama voters now voted for Trump, or just didn't bother voting.” FactsSufferingWhiteCommonAttentionIssuesEconomicDangerousTrumpRacismProgramDirectRootsBlameAvailableFormerAfrican AmericanBotherVotingImmigrantsVotersDistressMisogynyWhite SupremacySupremacyXenophobiaEconomic Issues Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his rhetoric.” ThinkingBelieveRealPossibilityTrumpReachingVotersReach OutRhetoric Author:Noam Chomsky
“There are real possibilities of reaching many of the Trump voters: many of them in fact voted for Obama, believing his rhetoric about "change," and upon realizing that they were deluded, have turned to Trump. And will find that they are again deluded. That's an opportunity that can be grasped, by organizing, education, activism right now.” BelieveRealFactsOpportunityRealizingPossibilityTrumpRight NowActivismReachingVotersRhetoricDeluded Author:Noam Chomsky
“American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.” MeanAgeSocialMediaSocial MediaVotersSwingsAmerican PoliticsBack And ForthFluid Author:Barack Obama
“To the extent that our political dialogue is such where everything is under suspicion, everybody is corrupt and everybody is doing things for partisan reasons, and all of our institutions are full of malevolent actors - if that's the storyline that's being put out there by whatever party is out of power, then when a foreign government introduces that same argument with facts that are made up, voters who have been listening to that stuff for years, who have been getting that stuff every day from talk radio or other venues, they're going to believe it.” IfsYearsBelieveHas BeensMadeReasonFactsGovernmentPoliticalActorsStuffPartyListeningArgumentInstitutionsRadioDialogueVotersIntroducingSuspicionPartisansVenuesStorylineTalk RadioPolitical Dialogue Author:Barack Obama
“In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.” IfsStatesUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyPercentVoteVoters Author:Barack Obama
“The UKIP voter is 60 percent male, 40 percent female. Is 65 percent older than 55 and 35 percent younger than 55. It's not hard to work out. Some have been Labor. Some have been Tories. The most difficult thing is previous voting intention, because they're coming from across the board.” Has BeensHardDifficultPercentFemaleLaborIntentionMalesWork OutBoardsVotingVotersDifficult ThingsUkip Author:Nigel Farage
“Racial, globalist free markets hasn't worked for everybody in America - hasn't worked for at least the white working, or lower middle class in America don't perceive that it has worked very well for them. It hasn't served everybody, and a bit of protectionism - for many American voters - seems like quite an attractive thing.” WellsSeemsAmericaBitsWhiteClassMiddlePerceiveAttractiveMiddle ClassVotersFree MarketProtectionismAmerican VotersAttractive Things Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“That's not for me to decide, that's for the voters to decide and many of them are saying, this slavish adherence to the cult of the free market that the Republican party has followed for decades isn't what we want anymore. That's not a question for me, that's up to them.” WantPartyRepublicanDecadesVotersCultRepublican PartyFree MarketAdherence Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“Here's the problem, we need folks like John Lewis and others who, I think, have been champions of voter rights, to actually recognize the fact that Donald Trump was duly elected.” ThinkingNeedsHas BeensFactsProblemRightsTrumpFolksChampionVoters Author:Reince Priebus
“For a person [like John Lewis] that is a champion of voter rights to question whether or not Donald Trump legitimately won an election or not is an incredible position to take five days before an inauguration.” PersonsFiveRightsPositionTrumpElectionIncrediblesChampionVotersInauguration Author:John Lewis
“I'm not just going to go on these fishing expeditions. I didn't do that with President Obama. We didn't go through this with President [Barack] Obama. I think the world and certainly the American voters understand that Donald Trump has mass holdings. He's worth billions of dollars. He's been very successful in business. And I think the American voters understood that when they voted him in.” ThinkingWorldPresidentSuccessfulGoes OnTrumpMassUnderstoodDollarsBillionsBarackFishingVotersPresident ObamaPresident Barack ObamaExpeditionsAmerican Voters Author:Jason Chaffetz
“You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.” Would BeInfluenceInformationLowsNegativePropagandaVoters Author:Edward Snowden
“I can't tell you, I couldn't put a number on it, but it's big, the number of white voters in America that voted for Obama thinking it was the end of racial strife. Thinking by electing a black, that America would be stating, "We're not racist anymore." And I warned everybody, "It's not gonna happen, it's gonna get worse. It's going to get worse." And it was, it did become worst.” ThinkingI CanEndsBigsHappensWould BeAmericaBlackWhiteNumbersWorstRacistVotersStrife Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What Donald Trump is, is not movement of change, it's a reaction to global change, it's a total reaction to global change. It's transformational change in the world done by transportation, technology and all that. And people, most of Donald Trump's voters want to go back.” PeopleWorldWantDoneTechnologyMovementTrumpReactionsVotersTransportation Author:Matthew Dowd
“I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of 'floating voters' who just like pop music when they're young. And I think that when you get to your fourth album, those floating voters have dissipated and you're left with a core audience, and at that point you've really got to get your act together and move on to something else to keep afloat, or you'll just shrink with your core audience.” PeopleThinkingFirstsTogetherMovingYoungLeftAudienceBandBenefitsAlbumsPopsCoreVotersFourthFloatingShrinksPop Music Author:Ben Watt
“Despite more than a year of spittle-flecked fury at Hillary Clinton for using a private email server, most Trump voters probably don’t even know what a private server is. Nor do they care. It was just a buzzword that somehow meant Hillary was a crook.” KnowsYearsCareTrumpClintonDespiteVotersEmailFuryCrooksServer Author:Kevin Drum
“Fox gets two million viewers a night, and MSNBC gets one. It's four million people, five million people, and 130 million people are going to vote. There are an awful lot of voters, and an awful lot of politically engaged, intelligent people who are not hanging on whatever happens on Bill O'Reilly or Rachel Maddow.” PeopleTwoHappensNightMillionsFiveFourVoteIntelligentBillsAwfulEngagedVotersFoxesViewersWhatever HappensHanging OnBill O Reilly Author:William Kristol
“I like [ Rick] Santorum personally and respect him, but you wouldn't say that he was really that strong of an opponent. At the end of the day it wasn't like [Ronald] Reagan running against [George] Bush, or [George W.] Bush against [John] McCain, even. It's sort of surprising that Romney had as much trouble as he did, and I think it shows a weakness in appeal to those voters.” ThinkingEndsShowsRunningStrongTroubleWeaknessAppealsOpponentsThe End Of The DayVotersSurprisingRomneyMccain Author:William Kristol
“Jewish voters care. They want someone who's good on Israel and who's good on Jewish issues. But they also want somebody who's going to be pro-choice and pro-gun control and pro-gay rights. To the vast majority of the Jewish community, just being good on Israel or on Jewish issues is not enough.” WantEnoughCareChoicesCommunityIssuesRightsGayGunMajorityIsraelBe GoodVotersJust BeingGun ControlGay RightsPro GunJewish CommunityPro Gun ControlPro Gay Author:Charles Schumer
“I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006. And now I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.” CountryStatesHighestVotersLowestMinnesotaVoter Turnout Author:Keith Ellison
“In all of my encounters with voters, I have repeatedly been confronted with two points of critique. First: You politicians are all the same! Second: You politicians may be speaking German, but we still don't understand you!” FirstsMayStillsTwoPoliticianEncountersVotersCritique Author:Martin Schulz
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” InspirationalPoliticsDemocracySecurityIgnoranceVotingVotersMiscellaneousEternal VigilanceVoting And Democracy Author:John F. Kennedy
“Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're voting for Trump out of white solidarity or out of frustration that they're, quote, unquote, "losing their country". And my concern with that is that it sort of reduces the condition of the Trump voter to one of pure ignorance. And I think it's far more complicated.” ThinkingCountryWhiteConditionsIgnoranceTrumpPureLosingConcernComplicatedEducatedDataNarrativeVotingFrustrationVotersSolidarity Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“The Trump voter isn't just an ignorant white guy in the South that if he were more educated would vote differently. The Trump voter is also someone who is dealing with an entirely new economy that his father, grandfather or grandmother didn't have to face 30, 40, 50, 60 years ago.” IfsYearsFacesGuyFatherWhiteEconomyTrumpYears AgoVoteSouthIgnorantEducatedGrandmotherVotersGrandfatherWhite Guys Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“I'm not defending the Trump vote. I think they're making a bad choice. But I'm saying the bad choice isn't one out of pure ignorance, and I think it's too easy. And it plays into cliches about, you know, elitist liberals to say, oh, these Trump voters - if they knew more, they would do better. And it's like, well, maybe they would do better if we had a legitimate set of policies in place that doesn't encourage the kind of gross radicalization that has happened under the Trump candidacy. So for me, it's all about developing a richer conversation.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsKindPlayChoicesEasyHappenedPolicyIgnoranceTrumpPureConversationVoteDevelopingVotersGrossClicheElitistBad ChoicesCandidacy Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“If we begin by the conversation that some people shouldn't be encouraged to come to the polls, that does nothing to help us. And just as a practical matter, when we don't encourage voters to come out to the polls, the people who stay home quickest are black and brown folk.” PeopleIfsDoeMatterHelpingHomeBlackConversationFolksPracticalsBrownVotersPollsBe Encouraged Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“Have you or haven't you built a good school? Haven't you improved living conditions? Aren't you a bureaucrat? Have you helped to make our labor more effective, our life more cultured? Such will be the criteria with which millions of voters will approach candidates, casting away those who are unfit, striking them off lists, advancing better ones, nominating them for elections.” SchoolMillionsOur LivesConditionsHavensApproachBuiltLaborElectionListsCandidatesVotersCastingCriteriaAdvancingBureaucratsGood SchoolLiving ConditionsNominating Author:Joseph Stalin
“In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, "Oh, he's being naïve. He thinks that there's no red states and blue states. And wait 'til he gets here." And I will confess that, I didn't fully appreciate the ways in which individual senators or members of Congress now are pushed to the extremes by their voter bases. I did not expect, particularly in the midst of crisis, just how severe that partisanship would be.” PeopleThinkingWayStatesWould BeIndividualWaitingMembersRedAppreciateBasesCrisisBlueCongressExtremesCampaignsMidstVotersSenatorsSeverePartisanship Author:Barack Obama
“In my [Impossibility] theorem I'm assuming that the information is a ranking. Each voter can say of any two candidates, I prefer this one to this one. So then we have essentially a ranking. It's a list saying this is my first choice. This is my second choice. Each voter, in principle, could be asked to give that entire piece of information. In the ordinary Plurality Voting, say as used in electing Congressmen, we generally only ask for the first choice. But, in principle, we could ask for more choices.” GivingFirstsTwoUsedChoicesAsksPrinciplesPiecesInformationOrdinaryAssumingListsCandidatesVotingVotersImpossibilityCongressmanTheoremsRankingSecond Choice Author:Kenneth Arrow
“In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs, they have no future. That is an issue that has got to be dealt with simultaneously as we deal with police brutality, voter suppression and the other attacks that are taking place on the African-American community.” KidsJobsYoungCommunityDealsIssuesPercentPoliceRateAfrican AmericanThirtyVotersUnemploymentPolice BrutalityBrutalitySuppressionUnemployment RateVoter Suppression Author:Bernie Sanders
“The Indian voter today is very mature. He votes in one fashion in the Lok Sabha elections, he votes in a different manner in the State Assembly elections. We have seen this. In 2014, the General Elections conincided with the Odisha Assembly elections. The same electorate gave one judgement for Odisha and another judgement for Delhi. So this country's voter is very mature and we should trust his maturity.” ShouldDifferentCountryStatesTodayFashionVoteElectionIndianMaturityJudgementMatureVotersAssemblyElectorateDelhiGeneral Elections Author:Narendra Modi
“Tom Perez is really bringing in the labor aspect of the Democratic Party, a group of voters that need to get back, also Latinos. You know, he is the first Latino DNC chair in the history of Democratic Party, a growing demographic that really over performed last time.” KnowsNeedsFirstsLastsPartyGrowingGroupsAspectLaborDemocraticChairsGet BackVotersTomsLast TimeDemocratic PartyLatinoDemographics Author:Ruben Gallego
“Trump voters are very loyal to Trump, and they don't want to come after him too soon. But, if something comes out that changes that dynamic, if the switch flips, the elevator goes straight to the basement. There's very little in terms of arms reaching out to help him.” IfsWantLittlesHelpingTermArmsTrumpReachingVotersReach OutLoyalFlipBasementsElevators Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
“Trump has a connection with his voters that most politicians don't have. I understand it perhaps better than anybody in media, and that connection that he has is not anything that anybody else can break. Only he can break it.” BreakMediaTrumpPoliticianConnectionsVoters Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I lived in California, 1984 to '87, it was a Republican state. Sacramento where I lived was 73% Democrat voter registration, when I got there. It was in the sixties when I left. We had amazing success in converting Democrats in Sacramento. But Pete Wilson, Ronald Reagan, all people elected governors and so forth, it's only been with the advent of the 1986 immigration bill that we lost California, if I might say, and now it's just gone so far left they're seriously talking about seceding.” PeopleIfsStatesMightLostLeftTalkingGoneRepublicanBillsDemocratImmigrationCaliforniaVotersGovernorsSixtyWilsonAdventConvertingRegistrationSacramentoVoter Registration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base - helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh, some commentators on Fox News - I think created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans for cooperating with me. That hothouse of back-and-forth argument and - and really sharp partisanship I think has been harmful to America.” ThinkingHas BeensAmericaAbilityLeaderEnvironmentRepublicanNewsArgumentFolksVotersFoxesBack And ForthCommentatorsFox NewsPartisanshipCooperating Author:Barack Obama
“Democrats and progressives do well when the voter turnout is high. Republicans do well when the voter turnout is low.” WellsRepublicanLowsDemocratVotersVoter Turnout Author:Bernie Sanders
“For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class. And that means standing up to Wall Street, standing up to the greed of corporate America. Even now and then, standing up to the media. And that means having a candidate who can excite working families, excite young people, bring them into the political process, create a large voter turnout.” PeopleNeedsMeanAmericaYoungPoliticalWinningProcessClassStreetsMiddleMediaWallStandingDemocratGreedCorporateCandidatesAddressesMiddle ClassVotersNow And ThenCorporate AmericaVoter Turnout Author:Bernie Sanders
“Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.” DemocraticScaredVotersSenators Author:Ted Cruz
“Essentially, how do you go after [Donald] Trump to have a real shot of taking back control of Congress in 2018? Democrats will need to energize not only their base, but also pick up actual swing voters who could be turned off from President Trump.” NeedsRealPresidentTrumpPicksShotsDemocratCongressVotersSwingsTurned Off Author:Chuck Todd
“We`ll go here on [Donald] Trump`s temperament. Trump`s reckless approach could lead to war. That really resonated with Democratic swing voters.” WarTrumpApproachDemocraticVotersSwingsTemperamentReckless Author:Chuck Todd
“Trump is popular, Trump is big precisely because Republican voters are angry at establishment Republicans. And establishment Republicans keep giving these people reason to be mad by continuing to insult them, and by appearing to agree with Democrats on key issues a majority of Americans disagree with, from amnesty to whatever, economics, Obamacare, take your pick.” PeopleGivingReasonBigsIssuesKeysTrumpRepublicanPicksEconomicsAgreeAngryMadMajorityDemocratInsultVotersDisagreeEstablishmentContinuingObamacareAppearingAmnesty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an angry speech or trying to isolate the press and the first amendment. Sooner or later, the Donald Trump show, which is a projection of strength and authority, will have to deliver to his voters. And if he doesn't, in very real terms, if he can't supersede a situation where a president cut the unemployment rate in half, if he can't do better, if he can't open factories and all the rest that he's promised, then I think he's in trouble.” IfsThinkingTryingFirstsRealShowsProblemPresidentTermHalfSituationCuttingTroubleTrumpSpeechAuthorityAngryPressesRatePhonesPainfulVotersFactoriesAmendmentsSooner Or LaterUnemploymentGlobalizationProjectionFirst AmendmentTweetPhone CallsIndustrializationUnemployment Rate Author:David Remnick