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As a political scientist, I am sometimes asked how it is possible for democracies to enact laws that run counter to the interests of the vast majority of voters.
It seems to follow that the more information made available, the more knowledgeable voters will be, and therefore the more able to hold leaders to account.
And if elected officials have failed to take necessary precautions or demonstrated a sense of resignation, voters will let them know at the ballot box.
When polled, most older white voters overwhelming reject Obama, even if many of them are unhappy with Bush.
The idea behind the “Bradley effect” is that white voters won’t reveal their prejudices to pollsters.
But his continuing difficulties with white working-class voters, who in the primaries went with Hillary Clinton, suggest that, perhaps, the “Bradley effect” is still alive and well.
With numbers like that, it would hardly be surprising if Obama tried to keep voters focused on foreign affairs in 2012, with high-profile initiatives like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s trip to Burma (Myanmar), carefully brokered diplomatic deals, and important international conferences at home, such as the NATO summit in Chicago in May.
Election-year tactics aside, American voters are right.
Common political institutions, accountable to voters across the eurozone, would provide a democratic fiscal counterpart to the ECB and help cage German power.
With the no-bailout rule restored, governments would have more space to pursue countercyclical policies and respond to voters’ changing priorities.
For starters, the Israeli middle class and younger voters took the social protests of the summer of 2011 into the ballot box.
Indeed, Lapid, a popular, eloquent, and attractive television journalist, clearly found the right formula for opposing the status quo without alienating too many voters with radical positions.
Bennett is religious and the former head of the West Bank settlers’ council, but he is also young, articulate, a successful high-tech entrepreneur, and a former combat officer – a combination that attracted both radical right-wing voters and young, urban, secular support.
But, on a political level, the European project is losing its resonance with Irish and Greek voters, with many now viewing Europe as something to endure, not a conduit to a brighter future.
Her presumptive candidacy’s trump card is supposed to be her advantage among critically important women voters – the deciding factor for Democrats in national elections.
But most of the women sought as voters are not corporate attorneys or secretaries of state.
She also seems to believe that women voters see in her the embodiment of their own struggles and will cheer her on vicariously when, by becoming America’s president, she shatters the last “glass ceiling.”
But American women voters know quite well what their own struggles are: paying the bills, educating their kids, dealing with a degenerated, costly health-care system, and so on.
Finally, she alienates her potential gender-based voters by being perfect.
In fact, despite Leave’s large faction of angry white working-class voters, middle-class trade-friendly Brexiteers, together with the “Remain” camp, constitute a clear majority of everyone who voted in the June referendum.
What a majority of British voters want is considered irrelevant.
With a hard Brexit, the Leave camp can avoid being seen by voters as the supplicant in negotiations with the EU – which it inevitably would be, no matter how often May denies it.
If British voters recognized their country’s weak negotiating position, the Brexiteers, who won the referendum on their promise to “take back control,” would face a political disaster.
A poll by the International Republican Institute in August showed that 47% of Pakistani voters supported a Bhutto-Musharraf alliance, with 37% opposed.
So, for many, seeing images of a well-run voting process (the ink stains prevented voters from casting more than one ballot) was proof enough that things had changed.
Few American Presidents have been supported by much more than 10% of eligible voters: half of the US's eligible voters, indeed, are not even registered to vote; of those who are registered, half do not vote; of those who do vote, less than half vote for the winning candidate.
One answer must be that voters distrust political parties.
Ideological party platforms have lost their force; voters do not accept the specific bundles offered by parties but want to pick and choose.
Such developments removed parties from the ambit of voters.
But as voters, they must wait before they see any results delivered by the choice they made at the ballot box.
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