Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.
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Too many of the career politicians, the established politicians in Washington on both sides of the aisle, are representing their party more than the people. And no matter what the media says, the ballot box will determine what people truly believe.
Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.
A lot of politicians say they want to get people out to vote; sometimes you can't totally believe they really want that.
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
Voters go into the ballot box with big ideas in their mind: leadership, change, experience, hope.
What I try to do is tell my constituents that this is what I believe and this is why I made that vote. And I think that that makes more sense to people generally than trying to triangulate some political position.
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.
Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.
The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.
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