While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

We have created our own fake world in order to satisfy our imagination through the illusion.

Apollo?” I guessed…He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”A god named Fred?

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

We opened our hearts. Hear me, heal me, save me, believe me.

Skeet shooting is probably more satisfying if you really hate skeets.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Skiing takes so much out of me, and when I start a family, I want to do it 100%.

Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.