Wall Street Journal (January 22)
“Every incoming presidential administration is tempted to overread the electorate’s support for its agenda. Judging by the tone and content of President Trump’s Second Inaugural Address, his administration will be no exception.” He has already misread popular support “in his Inauguration Day executive actions.” If this continues, “he’s in for a rude awakening. The people who put him over the top on Nov. 5 weren’t members of his fervent MAGA base.”
Tags: Agenda, Electorate, Executive actions, Inaugural address, Incoming, Maga, Misread, Presidential administration, Rude awakening, Support, Trump
The Star (May 13)
“The message from Malaysians, cutting across all races, has not merely been clear, but deafening, too. For the first time in the nation’s history, the people voted single-mindedly. Race and religion…were no longer attractive propositions to the electorate…. The massive defeat of the Barisan couldn’t have happened without the bulk of Malay and Muslim voters pushing for this historic change.”
Tags: Barisan, Defeat, Electorate, Malay, Malaysians, Muslim, Race, Religion, Single minded, Vote
Institutional Investor (May 15)
Voting in India took five weeks and the results won’t be announced until tomorrow, but the stock market has already rallied, which “suggests investors anticipate a solid victory” for Narendra Modi’s business-friendly National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Exit poll projections are notoriously unreliable and this year “several factors heighten the uncertainty,” especially the fact that “of India’s electorate of 814 million, fully 150 million were eligible to vote for the first time.”
Tags: Electorate, Exit poll, India, Investors, Narendra Modi, National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Projections, Rally, Results, Stock market, Uncertainty, Victory, Voting
