There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.
I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
Parties don't lose overnight, there is a gradual erosion of their base and electoral machine, which leads to sometimes cataclysmic defeat.
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.
It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures
[Donald Trump] has a pretty sizable electoral map win, much more than anybody thought.
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
With same-day registration, no requirement for a valid, dated photo ID for voters is an invitation to fraud and corruption of our electoral process.
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.
It's too bad American electoral races aren't as transparent as NASCAR races.
Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.
In many parts of the country, like South India, people don't bother much about the nationalist passions that BJP was attempting to rouse for electoral benefits.
U.S. stocks did not recoil from Trump's electoral victory, instead setting a record for election-to-year-end gains.
Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.
Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes.
I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
Electoral victory is not an end in itself. It is intended to set in motion a pluralist process to resolve our disputes and move the country forward.
Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.
It is rarely the quick fix that goes the farthest. So don't get tempted by political cycles and the lure of electoral wins.
I will be extremely happy if people start questioning political parties when they make electoral alliances.
The Democrat Party, particularly with demographic shifts taking, would love to get rid of the Electoral College.
I would've easily won the popular vote, much easier, in my opinion, than winning the electoral college.
We must be open to creating alliances of progressive and socialist organisations on a local level, particularly given the undemocratic electoral system face.
British electoral law forbids different campaign organisations acting in concert unless they have a shared cap on spending.
Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.
Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate, it scares the hell out of me.
When I see something like Russian intelligence services interfering with our electoral process, I find that incredibly offensive.
As the country's third-largest state by population, Florida is the crown jewel in the Electoral College among swing states.
The Electoral College needs to go, because it's made our society less and less democratic.
Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.
Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump.
It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
If Democrats start consistently winning Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the electoral outlook for Republicans in the future is mighty bleak.
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.
The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.
The root of democracy is in mass education. This foundation becomes stronger, when the citizens of tomorrow, our children are also educated about the electoral process.
We Americans are focused on Russia`s attacks with our electoral system and we`re consumed with that. But Russia is pushing against the West generally.
Opinion polls often suffer on account of unexpected developments once the electoral process starts, such as the death of a political leader (as in the case of the late Rajiv Gandhi).
The first job of the Brexit Party is to make sure Brexit's delivered and if that involves electoral pacts, that might happen.
This is exactly why the Electoral College is set up the way it is, so that one state would not elect the president.
I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.
I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.
My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power.
We are fighting to keep Israel a democracy - not just in terms of its electoral system but also in terms of its values.
Trying to gin up political violence for its electoral utility is - I think inarguably what we're seeing here. And I know that the Donald Trump campaign will not say that is what they're doing.
Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College.
Much as I respect Russell Brand's point of view, I'm in the opposite camp to him about voting. I think it's enormously important to engage with the electoral process.
General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world.
He'll likely be remembered as a political figure, but I don't recall Andrew Breitbart ever mentioning electoral politics. It bored him.
I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.
There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 U.S. election about Russian interference in the electoral process.
The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.
Campaigns are conducted specifically because of the Electoral College, and people accept it and they understand it. Whether they know it or not, they accept it.
I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.
Now that Donald Trump has won the presidency despite losing the popular vote, there's a growing cry to rethink, or even abolish, the electoral college. This would be a mistake.
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