Thomas E. Mann Quotes
- Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
- The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary…
- Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.
- Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.
- Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully by the winning candidate or party.