Name Quote by Steven Levy

To political technocrats, 2008 marks the maturation of 'microtargeting' - a technique that, if things are as close in November as expected, may well…

— Steven Levy

The way elections are won in Minnesota is by talking to people and sharing what's on their minds. It sounds so simple, but it…

— Tina Smith

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 started as a community organizer. Every one of my campaigns was premised on getting new people involved. And if there's a theme in…

— Barack Obama

I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using…

— James Surowiecki

Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize…

— John Podhoretz

All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.

— Tucker Carlson

And when a few noncitizens vote, those can swing a close election.

— Kris Kobach

“Whenever, in a democracy, we see our rulers obsessed with “the technical aspects” of the electoral process, whenever we see them tinkering with the…

— Tim Parks

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

— Chris Christie

The modern election campaign is created by power in order to convince the realm that all is well, and, further, that its inhabitants are…

— Neil Macdonald