Broader Quote by Pete Sessions

“ballot you go, the more volatile the polls tend to be: polls of House races are less accurate than polls of Senate races, which…

— Nate Silver

In The United States, the only real change I know has been Instant Runoff, which is usually applied to municipal elections. I see no…

— Kenneth Arrow

In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

— Barack Obama

A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

— Adam Cohen

Important state legislative races and statewide elections for offices like Lt. Governor and Attorneys General are often overshadowed by gubernatorial and federal elections.

— Ronnie Musgrove

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what…

— John Podhoretz

It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues.

— Jesse Ventura

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

— Al Gore

Elections are about the future.

— Nancy Pelosi

We live in a diverse nation, but it isn't that diverse. If any one state showed results so dramatically different from the results in…

— Timothy Noah

The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections…

— Barack Obama

Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.

— Ken Livingstone