A lot of times, you're just so determined to get everything that you're going to vote 'no' if you don't. But if you get 75% of what you want and what your district wants, you should be satisfied with that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
Of course, it is always nice to poll well, but if you don't get representatives elected, then what is the point?
If you're going to do something to hurt the district I represent, I can't vote for it.
People aren't necessarily as concerned with how you vote as long as they feel they have a voice. If you can cross that basic threshold - that is, when a voter knows you're willing to listen to them and that you care about their lives - then that's most of what you need to get their vote. It's not your voting record.
Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.
So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.
I'm not saying I shouldn't have to pay any taxes, but I shouldn't have to pay as many as somebody that votes. I don't vote because I don't know anything about politics. And honestly, I can't believe they'd let me. Isn't that an important thing? They'll just let me pick the president! I don't gotta know anything!
Some people just decide they won't vote for you, but it doesn't have to be all negative.
I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.