Computers cannot measure that, nor can poll voters tell us how to feel about it.
They say voters have told them to get along with each other.
Their response to defeat in 2008 was not that the voters might be telling them something from which they ought to learn.
American voters told the world that the war on Iraq is no longer an issue.
Last week the voters told them to sit down and shut up.
New Hampshire's voters, it seems, are telling us that this campaign hasn't gone on long enough.
No use blaming Congress - not until we voters tell it otherwise.
With a 10 percent increase proposed for 2006-7, he said, "voters were just telling us that this year's budget was too high."
They don't want to ask because they know the voters will tell them no.
Some believe the headline contributed to his political demise a year later, when the voters told him to drop dead.