Politics
In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 53.9% of the vote, Republican John McCain 44.1%, and others 2% in Skagit County. In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, Republican George W. Bush received 50% of the vote, Democrat John Kerry 48.1%, and others 1.8%
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)
“... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)