With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.
Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media.
I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.
Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.
I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.
People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected.
If Jeb Bush gets elected, I'll know that on my way back from overseas, I entered Biff Tannen's parallel universe.
It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.
As a former Governor, and more importantly, as a father, I know all too well how protective elected officials are of the special relationships they have with their children.
Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.
If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.
Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.
