And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.
Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president.
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive.
You know you have a problem in American politics when they're making 'House of Cards' look normal.
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.
Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.
Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. I'm not saying the United States is obsessed with image.
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'
Friends, there is no Left in American politics.
American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.
Is there decency left in American politics?
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity.
