Ap Gov

1. "He's not going to win. It's a Republican district. He'd be better for us if he loses. He'll work for me. He'll bring his organization with him." This quote was said by Jimmy Carter who was the governor of Georgia. During the time that Carter was being elected for President of the United States, people wanted something different after Vietnam and Watergate. He began to create his own organization of people who was shut out politically. Once a person was lost in an election, Carter would recruit the individual and give them a job or a favor and in that way, he would win more votes from the individual and the individual's voters. Some people became Carter's local coordinators and political cheerleaders through his race to the top. It's better to receive than to give. This political maxim relates to the first quote because Carter, who was a lame duck, was using other political outsiders to help him create his organization. He needed the underdogs to help him succeed and the underdogs needed him to receive better recognition.

2. "I've lived across the street form you for 18 years.. I shoveled your walk in winter. I cut you grass in summer.. I didn't think I had to ask you for your vote. He never forgot her response. 'Tom, I want you to know something: people like to be asked,'" A neighbor of Tip O'Neill told him this when he was running for a seat on the Cambridge City council. He never asked the neighbor for anything, but one day she did say that she was going to vote for him. This gives you an understanding that people do not mind being used; what they mind is being taken for granted. The more favors asked, the more supporters recruited during the run for office because he simply just asked for favors. The political maxim, "It's better to receive than to give?" helps explain the second quote. By asking more favors he was about to gain supporters during this run for office.

3. Better to have them p...n' inside the tent than outside p..n'