This election is not about issues but about how voters perceive the characters of the candidates.

In this view voters have some altruism, and perceive a benefit if others (or perhaps only others like them) are benefited.

But voters perceived Ms. Feinstein as unusually tough and independent.

By acknowledging what voters have perceived, Bush is inclined for the first time to act rather than let the economy take care of itself.

He is in danger of becoming a symbol of all that the voters perceive to be wrong with politics.

"The biggest thing that voters perceive is that he doesn't have a North Star."

For example, it may be helpful to politicians to accept responsibility for errors, as voters then perceive them as human and honest.

The voters perceive him as a decisive and resolute international leader who has no problem making fair decisions.

Polls show that voters perceive the economy as the most important issue in the campaign as well as one on which President Bush is vulnerable.

Widener had been elected by many progressive voters in 1971, but those same voters perceived him as shifting to the right after his election.