Argued Quote by Rick Perlstein

Voter identification tends to solidify after a new generation votes consecutively for the same party in three presidential elections.

— Margaret Hoover

Party affiliations based on issues such as class or race are slowly eroding. Against this backdrop, gathering data about voting intentions remains necessary, but…

— Wes Streeting

People tend to vote for one party consistently over time.

— Harry Enten

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other…

— Nick Clegg

I was surprised that when you get into electoral politics how scientific the analysis was in the electorate. You can identify on a state-by-state…

— Bill Foster

Looking at voter behavior over the years I'm always interested to see and impressed to see how voters eventually find the key issues that…

— Steven J. Law

All the evidence shows that establishing the habit of voting as early as possible is a vital tool in making sure that it's maintained…

— Emily Thornberry

The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict…

— Willie Brown

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

— Anonymous

“In the United States, the two-party system works as a way to manufacture an artificial group identity, akin to an ethnic or national one…

— Jason F. Stanley

People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out.…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Voter identification laws are tied to a sordid history of discrimination and vote suppression, but even procedures as uncontroversial as voter registration contain assumptions…

— Jamelle Bouie