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Socialist propaganda so attractive -- eliminating whatever may give offense to bourgeois sensibilities -- that it serves as a bait for votes rather than as a means of education, and _votes thus secured do not properly belong to us and do injustice to our Party as well as those who cast them_ ....

Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

But fome days afterwards, in proceeding upon votes in the fecond hundred, they came to the following refolution, viz. 1 bat the value of 4 frcchold in right of which the owner votes* is tbt rent which a tenant would give for it; and ml what the owner, occupying it himfelf may foffiMj acquire from it *.

Reports of the proceedings in committees of the House of Commons, upon controverted elections, heard and determined during the present Parliament .. 1785

Jimmy T was down on the beach, using personal paranoia to try and win votes from the women.

Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Acme Blindfolds & Blindsides. Tallulah Morehead 2010

Jimmy T was down on the beach, using personal paranoia to try and win votes from the women.

Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Acme Blindfolds & Blindsides. Tallulah Morehead 2010

She is too polarizing to pull in votes from the center.

Plouffe: Palin would be 'catastrophic' as 2012 GOP nominee 2009

Her branding, after all, is as the sensible end of the Unionist spectrum, with the ability to gain votes from the entire population.

North Down latest nwhyte 2010

The only way anybody gets ahead in votes is to keep a close close close eye on that ballot box.

'Regular guy' Thune is hot commodity in GOP circles 2009

You can see the administration influence with the difference between the Governor and Senate election - George Allen not only picked up percentage over Jerry Kilgore - but he won the raw increase in votes from the Governor's election by a 2,948-2,280, which was a rarity in any of these Fairfax County districts.

34th House District 2007

The slight difference in votes is presumably because a few people could not bring themselves to vote for any constituency candidate.

When two tribes go to war (part two) Jeff 2007

Unlike Bud Light, which seeks to maximize its public appeal, political campaigns can afford to alienate the more sensitive members of the electorate and are perfectly happy to drive down turnout — as long as they win votes from a plurality of those who do show up.

Dumb and Dumber 2004