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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.
Elections have consequences.
Losing the presidency is not like losing any other office. More than any other office, it's a vote about you as a whole human being.
Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.
After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.
I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
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