I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them.
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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
Elections are about choices, and part of what you do is draw that contrast.
Elections are rarely perfect.
In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power always wins. In others, like Saudi Arabia, the very idea of an election is unthinkable.
Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.
Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.
We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.
Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
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