Sentences with phrase «us voters based»

Building a border wall, and having Mexico pay for it, was one of Trump's key pitches to his nationalist voter base during the 2016 campaign.

Mr. Corcoran would like to appeal to President Trump's voter base in his party's primary, and he has backed the armed - teacher program enthusiastically, calling it a «game changer.»

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Gerrymandering is a problem; a Representative could have their voter base diluted across neighboring districts at the whim of the controlling party.

Their voter base consists mostly of «new Dutch citizens», a.k.a. voters born abroad or with with parents born abroad, which (by definition?)

It would be a mistake to continue with such a strategy considering the anti-establishment fervor we are witnessing within both the conservative and progressive voter bases.

Indeed, Labour gained some seats without even canvassing last year, such was the level of enthusiasm among voters based on little more than viral Facebook videos and a pledge to build a fairer Britain.

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

The main profile change for the Liberal Democrats is with their voter base.

With many left leaning 2010 Liberal Democrat voters having switched to Labour, Greens and even UKIP, their voter base will also be much more right wing.

Paladino was here last week for a rally that, if anything, highlighted the struggles within the conservative voter base over the measure, even if polls show most New Yorkers are in favor of updating the state's assault weapons ban.

An algorithm matches riders and voters based upon:

The ads can be potent, given that campaigns can target individual voters based on their friends or their likes online.

By the rules of both the Assembly and Senate, mailers can not be sent to voters based on their political party affiliation.

Reed said Cuomo's decision was a politically motivated action, aimed at appeasing his voter base, instead of land owners and farmers.

The speaker took heat for his position from local leaders and housing advocates who accused him of opposing affordable housing to preserve his voter base in the largely Jewish neighborhood by keeping out other groups.

Organizers on both sides were doing their best to track every call made and record every voter's reaction, creating intelligence on the voter base that may be crucial come November.

Tim Farron would likely take over as the next leader of the Liberal Democrats as the party sets - about rebuilding their voter base.

The results of the primary poll clearly indicate what occurs when proper represention of the voter base is accounted for.

Otherwise they will find that they loose all of their working class voter base.

Part of the work the firm performed for Bolton's super PAC was psychographic voter targeting that it claimed could profile voters based on certain characteristics.

In 2013, the Mercers became the principal investors in the data science firm Cambridge Analytica, which says it can target voters based on their personality types.

«You see it with the Syrian refugee crisis, and with our porous border — it's a deliberate effort to completely introduce a voter base that's loyal to one party and one ideology.»

Several observers suggested that Labour dominated the digital election because the party used Facebook, Twitter and online videos to build and motivate its voter base, rather than to attack the Conservatives.

After the Blue Wave of Democratic - progressive victories across Westchester last November, Mayer decided to run for State Senate because she said she believed she could represent this group of energized voters based on her years of advocating the same progressive ideals.

So far, Trump's approach to the media, labelled as the MSM (Mainstream Media) by predominantly right - wing and / or libertarian demographics has played well with his core voter base who believe that the media bloc are part of a larger coordinated conspiracy against him and the right wing in general.

which plays well into the demographics of the voter base he is targeting; many of which distrust the Government or any suitably large organisation (which can be warranted given that the US Government engineered the biggest gold theft in history from the US populace) and ongoing cultural divisions between North and South USA.

Earlier, Senate Democrat leader John Sampson of Brooklyn accused the Republican majority of being more concerned with protecting its majority power and its conservative voter base than approving what he calls a civil right supported by most New Yorkers.

Labour lost the election because in England, the electorate — including a significant chunk of their core voter base, shifted rightwards to the tories (who intirn moved further right), or even further right to UKIP.

Ms. Clarke, like Mr. Jeffries, has a core African - American voter base that sides with Mr. Obama.

Astorino, in an interview with public radio and TV, says he's already been through a race where he was behind by double digits, with a voter base that was two thirds Democratic.

Mondello controls a small army of party faithful that are critical to collecting tens of thousands of petition signatures in the dead of summer, along with a loyal voter base in the Town of Hempstead that can dictate control of the county at large.

Erin O'Connor, speaking for Katko, said Friday he will make a strong case to voters based on his record in Congress.

UAt the last election, the tories had largely recovered their voter base.

The Labour party was in flux, concerned about the erosion of its core voter base as the class and demographic boundaries changed.

Clinton also cited the Trump campaign's use of the controversial GOP firm Cambridge Analytica, which boasts of «psychographic» profiles of voters based heavily on Facebook information.

For a city known for its progressive voter base, where the mayoralty is almost always decided during the Democratic primary, this year's mayoral contest has taken on a decidedly conservative bent.

In all cases excellent loyalists to traditional conservative party principles have been held up as disloyal because they dared to call out the back room deals and patronage activities that have sold out Republicanism and disenfranchised the party's voter base.

Lord Ashcroft: Polling from marginal Tory seats shows the Party needs to expand its voter base in order to win a majority

The Tories were led by a plausible, fluent, telegenic young leader, solidly backed by the press and appealing outside of their natural voter base.

Respondents of this poll were matched to a target sample of Massachusetts registered voters based on gender, age, race, education, party identification, ideology, and political interest.

The documentary does not make a very compelling case, however, as many of these politicians are conservative Republicans who are probably simply pandering to their voter bases.

And given Trump's rural voter base, it's a curious choice on his part.

How do you not understand that publicly disowning a guns rights lobby would alienate more than half of his voter base?

The refrain became a stock response for politicians not wanting to alienate any part of their voter base in last year's midterm elections.

The company, which burst onto the American political scene in 2012, boasts of its ability to assemble so - called psychographic profiles of American voters based on five dominant personality traits — openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism — and to target them with uniquely crafted messages based on their unconscious biases.

The company closely associated with Ted Cruz's data - centric primary campaign has switched teams: Cambridge Analytica, the London - based outfit that boasts an ability to target voters based on their unconscious psychological biases is now working behind the scenes for Donald Trump.

Scoring voters based on likelihood of candidate support and likelihood of turnout is nothing new.

Building psychographic profiles of individual voters based on their lifestyles and preferences could be hugely powerful, thinks Chris Sumner, research director at the Online Privacy Foundation.

These schisms reflect genuine divisions in the Republicans» voter base — and the Mercers, the Kochs, and the Adelsons are adept at exploiting them.