An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Elections are about choices, and part of what you do is draw that contrast.
Elections are about choices.
After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.
I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.
All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Elections have consequences.
I'm not afraid of elections. I've won every election I've fought in.
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