Construction companies keep people employed, and that employment is translated into votes.

A savvy politician could turn his access to resources into votes.

But all of the enthusiasm he generates has to be channeled into votes.

He maintains that the public attention will translate into enough votes to win a second time around.

But no one knows how that converts into votes.

Can we turn this enormous amount of energy we've built into votes?

Turning these conflicting feelings into votes may well be the most important political battle of the year.

But the big question is whether all that energy will translate into votes for a dead man.

The Democrats will try to turn such perceptions into votes, but it won't be easy.

But he was unable to translate those efforts into votes.