Sentences with phrase «voters elect the politicians»

@uncouth... um, don't the voters elect the politicians?

Asked if the pressure campaign is coming early — legislators aren't up for re-election until November 2012 — Koch said it was important to tell voters they elected a politician of «dishonor.»

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The voters simply chose to elect politicians who understand that we live in a multicultural world and that multiculturalism is a strength, not a liability.

One rational means for GOP voters to do so is to elect politicians who would be crazy enough to take the irrational action in the last stage of the game of not increasing the debt ceiling.

It's about realizing he couldn't litigate his past comedy, about trusting his staff, about understanding why politicians act the way they do in interviews, about recognizing why the norms of the Senate matter.So this is an interview about what it's like to be a politician, why perfectly nice and interesting people end up acting like all those other politicians after getting elected, and the role we as voters (and we in the media) play in it.

One might argue that politicians could get around this by hiding their intentions until they're elected, but that ignores that the only way they get voters is by expressing their ideology; they don't have anything else to make them likeable.

Just as those who give to charity want to see as much as possible of their money go to the intended beneficiaries rather than chief executives» salaries, and investors in companies want to see overhead and administration costs kept down, elected politicians want to show voters that they are running a tight ship.

Since men are the status quo, the strategic voter will use this largely meaningless distinction (male - ness) to select the candidate they think is most likely to have an edge over the politician they don't want elected.

Part of the explanation arises from Balls» leap from an elected politician who some voters and journalists viewed with disdain to an awkward dancer who voters and journalists now hail as an adorable celebrity.

«The reason I think it's important that everyone votes is because when you have an unequal voter turnout between demographic groups like we have now — people over 65 are almost twice as likely to vote as 18 - 24 year olds - then politicians look after the people that have elected them or the people that might elect them in the future.

In two state races overshadowed by the presidential primaries, voters will elect replacements Tuesday for crooked politicians Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos.

«When politician after politician after politician elected by the voters falls to criminal charges, people lose faith.»

Silver has been one of the most consistently powerful politicians in New York state, but he is elected not by voters, but individual members of the Democratic conference.

Convicted felon and disgraced former Queens politician Hiram Monserrate lost his comeback bid for a seat on the NYC Council as voters in his working class district couldn't look past his history of corruption and domestic abuse, electing Assemblyman Francisco Moya instead.

At a time when voters feel insecure their disillusionment with elected politicians is seemingly vindicated.

If elected, it promises to right the wrongs the government has created through highly violent — but straightforward — means.To Tom's horror, voters across the nation are nothing short of enamored.Now with everyone against him, Tom must convince voters that he is an honest politician and that the government can change for the betterment of everyone...

Elected Politicians sell their ideas to voters.

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Vote Hemp's mission is to educate consumers, businesses, farmers and legislators about the many benefits of industrial hemp and to mobilize voters to elect pro-hemp politicians.

The professors also found «that elected judges are more focused on providing service to the voters (that is, they behave like politicians), whereas appointed judges are more focused on their long - term legacy as creators of precedent (that is, they behave like professionals).»