Sentences with phrase «u.s. voting population»

They're out of touch like Mitt Romney, who lost the presidency in 2012 and was widely criticized for saying at a private campaign event, «My job is not to worry about» 47 % of the U.S. voting population.

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In the U.S. House, a small knot of moderate Republicans — from swing districts, from areas with high Hispanic populations, or retiring — are attempting to go around Speaker Paul Ryan and bring a compromise on immigration to the floor for a vote.

And people vote with their feet: It looks like «the 2020 census will bring five new U.S. House seats to the no - income - tax states» thanks to population growth, while «high - tax states such as Illinois and New York are set to forfeit seats.»

George Rupp: The vote in the U.K. in favor of Brexit, the rejection by referendum of the peace agreement in Colombia, and the 2016 U.S. election all illustrate the power of democratic processes to register forcefully how the prevailing wisdom of a social order may not be in touch with substantial segments of the population.

The Iowa town, with a population of about 9,874, received the most votes — a total of 133,545 votes — out of the 15 finalists in PetSafe's fourth - annual Bark for Your Park contest, which launched in May to award one U.S. community $ 100,000 and four runner - up communities $ 25,000 each to build a local dog park.

That's right, candidates, who, by definition, are asking the general population to vote them into some office or another, are hoping to be elected by telling those same voters that they shouldn't have a say in who represents them in the U.S. Senate.

Both the lowest and highest recorded voter turnouts for a U.S. Presidential election were in the 19th century: only 26.9 percent of the voting population turned out for the 1824 John Adams vs. Andrew Jackson election, but 81.8 percent of the voting population turned out for the 1876 Rutherford Hayes vs. Samuel Tilden election.