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What will voters make of the damning revelations that are sure to come to light, now that Comey’s predecessor, Robert Mueller, has been appointed as special counsel to investigate the ties between Russia and Trump’s election campaign?
And growing numbers of voters are now saying as much to their representatives, who, sooner or later, will have to start listening if they want to avoid imperiling their own electoral chances.
Meanwhile, faced with a large federal budget deficit, many American voters would welcome reduced spending on nuclear weapons.
This double-speak on the part of national political elites is perceived as such by voters, whose trust in both national and EU institutions is naturally declining.
Having performed poorly in a spate of recent state elections, the ruling Congress Party is betting that the new budget will swing voters its way if the national election, currently scheduled for April 2009, is moved forward to this autumn.
The lesson of the 2004 election, when poorer voters, fed up with the previous BJP-led government’s “India Shining” policies and slogans, threw it out of office, has not been forgotten.
Poor voters may not associate the largesse with the Congress-led government in New Dehli, but rather with the state governments that actually hand out the goods.
These policies are popular with voters, and they are protected by powerful actors (for example, the strong export-oriented business sector) and by trade agreements with almost all the world’s major economies and regional blocs.
Instead, Koizumi appealed to an electoral majority comprising urban and suburban swing voters.
Unsurprisingly, as Koizumi’s reforms stalled, and as LDP governments under Prime Ministers Shinzo Abe, Yasuo Fukuda, and Taro Aso ran adrift, Ozawa-proposed wealth redistribution captured the hearts and minds not only of rural voters, but also of city dwellers displeased at the fraying social-safety net.
Now that Republican rank-and-file voters have come to regard themselves more as Trump supporters than as Republicans, the party’s leading lights must decide what to do next.
One should feel sorry for these voters, but not for the Republican politicians who have continued to swindle them by supporting Trump.
For starters, we have to educate voters, and keep the spotlight on policies that are against their interests.
This should be seen as a betrayal of many Trump voters in the rural areas of relatively poor states and the Rust Belt cities of the Midwest, where people most need the federal government’s help to remain solvent and healthy.
These voters chose him a year ago not only because he was not Sarkozy, but because he incarnated the values of the true left, even if his centrist moderation seemed a bad omen.
Voters of the center or even the center-right are disappointed, too, by their president’s lack of charisma, if not sheer incompetence.
The financial crisis has not helped improve the image of globalization, which has long been deeply unpopular among ordinary voters in most of the world’s advanced countries.
In early October, a razor-thin majority of voters rejected Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’s proposed peace deal with the guerrillas.
Any move the Democrats make will be unpopular with their own voters and will simply shift attention from Trump’s inability to solve the problem to their own lack of a plan.
Its electoral system heavily favors rural voters.
The country’s declining number of voters are lining up in favor of cheaper, imported food.
On June 23, British voters could make the situation far worse if they vote in their referendum to leave the EU.
Confuse the voters enough, and eventually more will be likely to stay with the horse they know.
In France in 2002 and 2017, the right-wing candidates – Jean-Marie Le Pen and Marine Le Pen, respectively – were soundly defeated when voters rallied behind their second-round opponents.
With the rise of the Tea Party, Republicans may rail against raising the debt ceiling, but they are likely to back down in the end, because, among other things, debt-funded wars – say, in Afghanistan and Iraq – are easier to defend than pay-as-you-go wars that voters must finance up front with taxes.
But eight in ten Americans think that terrorist attacks are unlikely, and many voters believe that involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq will increase rather than limit America’s vulnerability to terrorism.
Volunteer soldiers – including many non-citizens – and mercenary units for manpower reduce even further the reasons for voters to care.
A leader who can represent this purely moral – as opposed to political – image helps to provide a focus for voters.
Voters who support populist movements do so because they believe that current elites fail truly to represent them.
A much stronger case could be made that it is the absence of effective policies to manage migration that has alienated European voters.
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