all politics is local

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谚语
  1. Ultimately, constituents and voters are concerned most about issues that affect their personal lives and home communities, and they vote accordingly. US
    — "The campaign never ends," said the 44-year-old Congressman. . . . "I win by reaching out to people one by one, through relentless retail politics." In other words, Mr. Bacchus is betting his congressional career on the adage that all politics is local.

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Variously attributed to Associated Press Washington bureau chief Byron Price, said to have first used this term in 1932, and to Chicago writer Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936). Derivative of British English professor, Dr. Samuel Johnson's 18th Century aphorism, "All virtue is local".
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