Elections Quote by Jacob Weisberg Download Open image “Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections.” — Jacob Weisberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elections Political Politics Results Tend
Every time I think that political analysts and writers will finally recognize that most of them don't understand much about political polls, they prove… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
“The people who explain politics for a living – the politicians themselves, their advisers, the media who cover them – love to reach conclusions like this one. Elections are decided by charismatic personalities, strategic maneuvers, the power of rhetoric, the zeitgeist of the political moment. The explainers cloak themselves in loose-fitting theories because they offer a narrative comfort, unlike the… — Sasha Issenberg Copy Share
That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
National polls basically always misinterpret the final outcome or mis-predict the final outcome. — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I'm not a professional political analyst, so my political analysis is worth about what you pay for it. — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
The sense that I get is that every election cycle, the mainstream press devolves more and more. — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
“Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.” — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
As politics is not subtraction but addition, those who share views and ideas need to join forces and they have to cooperate with political… — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
It was clear, for example, in 1988 that the political process had already become perilously remote from the electorate it was meant to represent. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
As far apart as they are theologically, Mormons and evangelical Christians may have more in common with each other anthropologically than they do with… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Trade, tourism, cultural exchange, and participation in international institutions all serve to erode the legitimacy of repressive regimes. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and dangerous governments… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
You may or may not agree with Obama's policy prescriptions, but they are, by and large, serious attempts to deal with the biggest issues… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The leader who loves books that tell him he is great and right may be worse than the leader who does not love books… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Without medical records that he hasn't released, we can't know whether Gingrich may have inherited his mother's manic depression. Nevertheless, one observes in the… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German gymnastics team. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is a fierce love for the nation’s soul - its land, its people, its core, coupled with a burning contempt for a government… — Njau Kihia Copy Share Image
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American… — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
Midterms behave very differently than presidential elections. Midterms, for a federal candidate, often times are a referendum on the president, where in presidential years,… — Mike Coffman Copy Share Image
In India, elections happen every year in at least a few states. — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
President Trump used the office of the Presidency to solicit foreign interference in our elections for his own personal, political benefit. — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“The Nazi salute was performed by public officials in the USA from 1892 through 1942. The researcher Dr. Rex Curry asks 'What happened to… — Micky Barnetti Copy Share Image
If the elections are a mere fraud, why are terrorists being trained and infiltrated into India at the command of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Winning or losing elections is not important. What is important is that I have taken the plunge. — Roopa Ganguly Copy Share Image
