Sentences with phrase «vote points gives»

Vote Points gives token holders an exclusive say in various relevant issues on the platform.

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Political analyst Boban Stojanovic believes the publicity given to convicted war criminals is a ploy by the ruling party to «gain some political points» ahead of the vote.

The day before the vote, London odds makers gave 80 % chance that Remain would be victorious, as polls revealed a 10 - point edge over the Leave campaign.

But a total repeal of Obamacare, at least in the near term, is much easier said than done, and full replacement with new comprehensive legislation seems highly unlikely at this point in time, given that 60 Senate votes will be needed to do so, and Democrats and Republicans appear as far apart as ever in coming to a consensus on a bipartisan strategy to move forward.

Liberal Boomers, who seldom if ever seriously criticize the legions of conservative - demonizers in your midst, for this post I will mostly join Mr. Druckenmiller in accusing you outright, that is, I will act as if this was your premeditated plan motivated by selfish interest, and not a pattern of political self - delusion that you fell into, given the drip - drip - drip of Democrat talking points over the years, given your gleeful listening to those who dismissed conservatives as hateful dunces, so that you ceased to even consider the NUMBERS conservatives kept pointing to, and just kept on doggedly voting D.

Just did, thank you for pointing that out... It does appear that the more precise and correct word, when applied to the voting example I gave above is plurality which is synonymous with «relative majority».

In a recent «Points of View» episode on BBC Radio 4 [1], the well - known philosopher, Professor Roger Scruton, gave a reasoned analysis of something that may explain the surprise election of Donald Trump in America and of the Brexit vote here in the UK.

For example, among traditionalist evangelicals, men gave 85 percent of their vote to Dole, compared with 64 percent for women, a twenty - one point difference; comparable figures for traditionalist Catholics were 58 and 47 percent, respectively.

Arsene Wenger and the Gunners will still be under great pressure, though, but so will our next opponents West Ham and their manager Slaven Bilic who was given the dreaded vote of confidence by his club's owners after their 2 - 1 loss to struggling Hull City made it four in a row and left them just six points from safety.

At one point, Ed Miliband seemed open to the idea of using this system to pick the London mayoral candidate, but then quietly retreated to only giving London members and affiliate members (who pay a # 3 fee) a vote.

When discussing the matter at a recent party meeting, a number of us made the point that, in supporting a «veto vote» for English MPs that nevertheless gives the whole Commons the final say, we should remember asymmetry has traditionally been the price England pays to ensure Scotland stays in the Union.

So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:

One would have thought that some of the issues that became talking points during the campaigning would have played a part on the voting day, but instead the voters ignored and gave this great country the most odious of leadership, since independence.

«There is no point giving shareholders a vote on executive pay without the greater transparency needed so they can discern the aggregate remuneration executives receive under the complex arrangements currently in place - David Cameron has shown he is simply out of touch.»

Odds are given for 5 - point ranges of vote share.

Furthermore, provisional ballots, which are usually given to voters who mistakenly think they're registered or accidentally vote from outside of the district, are unlikely to significantly affect the vote, but every little bit matters at this point.

And it refuses to live up the promises it gave EU citizens to keep their rights exactly as they were at the point of the vote.

A poll by ComRes for the Independent on Sunday newspaper gives the «no» camp a six - point lead, as the bulk of former «don't knows» switch to a «no» vote.

But one senior Conservative MP gave me a taste of the anger at Cameron» election performance in which he won 36 % of the vote — around four points more than the 32.3 % won by Michael Howard in 2005.

The 32 per cent vote share given to the Liberal Democrats by Angus Reid is a full ten points up on their last survey, while the Conservatives are down 6 and Labour down 4.

The other standard trackers all paint an equally bleak picture for the government, on the forced choice question (which I always tend to think of our best indicator of which way tactical voting is likely to go next time round, given that there are no regular tracker questions that ask directly about it) the Conservatives now enjoy a 12 point lead over Labour, they have an 8 point lead as the party most likely to run the economy well, David Cameron has an 8 point lead as Best Prime Minister.

The Conservative candidate, Anne McIntosh, took the seat, although voters gave Nick Clegg's party a five - point rise in its share of the vote.

A spokesman said: «The main point to make here is that the proposal to give votes to 16 and 17 year olds at Holyrood elections will receive proper scrutiny - by the Scottish Parliament.

Cameron's eight percentage point lead among «enthusiastic voters» just before the May 2015 election seen in Figure 2 contrasts with the much less clear - cut picture given by «voting intention» alone (Figure 3, below).

Yet the liberal Democratic mayor ardently insisted that it would be «irresponsible» for him to curtail his fiscal ambitions at this point, given Trump's political impetuousness and his lack of «popular vote mandate.»

The thinking is that passage of GENDA could give a much needed progressive win to IDC Leader Jeff Klein & Co. at a time when the breakaway Democratic conference is under intense pressure from the left for (so far) failing to force a vote on some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top agenda items, including the all - inclusive 10 - point Women's Equality Act and the campaign finance reform bill.

There are however a number of key points in the renewal process where parliament should debate and indeed vote on this issue given its national significance.

In Illinois, Schlesinger and others have pointed out that, even if Nixon had carried Illinois, the state alone would not have given him the victory, as Kennedy would still have won 276 electoral votes to Nixon's 246 (with 269 needed to win).

That's been given short shrift by the Welsh Government which points out that the recent Charter for Budget Responsibility vote was designed to do just that.

«But if you say, «Are you gonna vote for this person who went through this bureaucratic process to get to the point where you were given the illusion that you had a choice about how your city is going to work?»

The latest YouGov polling from London gives Labour a 16 point lead in Westminster voting intentions, but shows Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone are... (Comments: 0)

A Guardian ICM poll released this week gave the Conservatives a 12 - point national lead, with a 42 per cent share of the vote compared to Labour's 30 per cent.

Although the seven point Tory lead is their narrowest of the year, it could still give them enough votes to become the largest party in the Commons, although they would struggle to hold a majority.

«I believe that in a democracy, everybody should participate, and I don't see how you call something a democracy when you don't give everybody that opportunity to participate,» said Queens Councilman Daniel Dromm, Mark - Viverito's point - person for non-citizen voting.

Still, in a post-election analysis, Jones pointed out a telling statistic: the last statewide opinion poll gave Hawkins - Jones 9 percent of the vote in the governor's race — yet 80 percent of voters had never heard of them and the alternative they represented.

«Under Mayor de Blasio, the New York City Council is voting to give municipal identification cards to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants,» one talking point reads.

Brown says the plans, including giving MPs the right to elect select committee chairmen and chairwomen, will be put to a vote at some point.

Cameron gave a master class in message discipline, deftly turning every question back onto his main point, that a vote for Clegg was a vote for five more years of Gordon Brown.

The poll gives Labour a 36 per cent share of the vote - two points down from the 38 per cent they polled in October.

«You have to give them points for creativity but Democrats still far outnumber Republicans in those districts and the likelihood that voters in any major way are going to vote on a protest line is silly,» Thies said.

BPIX don't give the detailed voting intention figures, but at present Labour are 7 points ahead of the Conservatives (whatever that may mean — we don't know how people are answering the standard voting intention — when they say how they'd vote in a General Election tomorrow are they already taking into account who they expect to be the next leader?

Mark - Viverito, who has repeatedly engaged the community and ethnic media since taking office, touched on many of the key points from her State of the City speech, as well as other topics that have made recent headlines, such as the City Council's controversial February 5 vote to give its members a pay raise of $ 36,000 a year, a higher rate than a special salary committee had initially recommended.

Likewise, legislators earn between one and three points for voting against bills that were give a rating of one, two or three «smokestacks.»

«There may well be a rise in tactical voting this May with Unionist Tory voters switching to Labour to keep the SNP out» I would disagree, everything I am hearing points to the opposite with tory voters giving their FPTP vote to who ever can oust Labour if the tories are not in contention.

A YouGov poll carried out for the Sun which took the views of more than 10,000 people gave the Tories a 12 - point lead over Labour, by 42 % to 30 %, on voting intentions if there were a general election tomorrow.

Dazang, who did not give the number of the card readers to be configured, said that the device to be deployed would cover the number of polling units and voting points in the state.

A president given to endless talk with a preference for making his points via anecdotes (such as one about why a portrait of George Washington is on the wall of a particular toilet), Lincoln, a Republican, favored the adoption of the amendment to abolish slaves as did many in his own party, but to get the required two - thirds vote of the House of Representatives thereby sending it to the states for ratification, he had to bring in some Democrats.

Host Joanna Lumley, who took over from Stephen Fry, opened proceedings by pointing out that 100 years ago, the Royal Albert Hall — where the Baftas took place — celebrated the first group of British women being given the vote.

• 68 ballots were received during this round of voting (Phase II) • To avoid ties when they happened, the edge was given to those who appeared in more lists • Number of female performances appearing on this list: 28 • Number of male performances appearing on this list: 22 • Each ballot is worth 120 points • 106 received votes during phase II • 8150 points were distributed • 35 performances received # 1 placement • Although many films had two performances that made the list, only one film had three.

The optics of canceling a vote that teachers wanted to hold doesn't look great for the AFT, given that union officials regularly make a point to say that workers should have the freedom to decide for themselves if they want to be represented by a union.