Sentences with phrase «voters in some states did»

«Three quarters of the voters in this state don't know enough about Rob Astorino to have an opinion of him,» Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg told WCBS 880's Paul Murnane.

Not exact matches

So in each state, there were more than enough Stein voters to swing the result, just like Ralph Nader did in Florida and New Hampshire in 2000.»

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

Black voters in red states should vote as they usually do for candidates, down the ballot — and leave their choice for President blank.

Not only do we think black voters should abstain from voting for the Democratic presidential nominee in red states, we also think black voters should continue their role as pivotal voters in battleground states.

As they enthusiastically did in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out in massive numbers this November in states where their votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

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.

Ronald... you are not doing any favors for «Romney / Ryan 2012» by saying something ignorant and then stating your support for them In fact, I think you are motivating the swing voters more than anyone else — no educated person would honestly say they agree with your statements or opinions.

One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didn't want to make a strong play for working - class white voters in swing states.

Plus, in the case of this year, human voters and some computers determined that Alabama was a better, more deserving team than Oklahoma State, but Oklahoma State gets the nod simply because they didn't have to play LSU in the regular season and Alabama did.

Golden State added the biggest prize in free agency, Kevin Durant, and while that will likely cause Curry's numbers to fall, oddsmakers don't think voters will glance over the» 15 - ’16 MVP when selecting their All - NBA guards.

Here's a quick example of how NOT to do GOTV — a Republican political «operative» (a word that always amuses me) has been flooding swing - state voters» phones with spam texts detailing how horrible Barack Obama is (he's in favor of the «gay agenda,» or so I've heard).

Many states in the US do this with voter referendums.

This isn't the first time Turner has suggested he's more electable than his challengers — attorney Wendy Long, who has never before held elected office; and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who has been stumping around the state for almost a year, but has failed to generate much excitement, either among the GOP rank - and - file (although they did put him on the ballot at the convention in Rochester earlier this month) or voters.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

Two of her fellow statewide elected officials, AG Eric Schneiderman and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, have some work to do in the name recognition department, 63 percent and 58 percent of voters, respectively, say they don't know enough about them to form an opinion.

Samuels also made the «that which does not kill us» argument, insisting (much like state GOP Chairman Ed Cox has in connection with his party's gubernatorial fight), saying Duffy will be stronger, better known to voters and more fully vetted if he wins a primary fight.

Felder, an observant Jew whose district includes many Orthodox Jewish voters, said his constituents «don't agree» with a lot of what two of the state's top Democrats — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio — have been saying in the wake of Donald Trump's election, pledging to fight on behalf of liberal values and maintain a sort of safe haven for the left in New York.

If either of them were to stay in power for 16 or 20 years (and Obama was popular enough that he might have done so) large numbers of the opposition would find themselves shut out from power and subject to punitive laws and regulations (consider the IRS targeting of conservative groups under Obama or recent Trump's voter fraud investigations of states that opposed him).

The MTGP Coordinator Danielle Breck stated that «The Montana Green Party has repeatedly shown, through our various petitioning efforts, that we do, in fact, have the «modicum of voter support» the law requires and that our candidates are not «frivolous,» but rather provide an important alternative to pre-selected, unresponsive, corporate controlled candidates offered by the two - party oligarchy.

In all four states, the marriage equality effort did better in urban areas and were less popular among rural voterIn all four states, the marriage equality effort did better in urban areas and were less popular among rural voterin urban areas and were less popular among rural voters.

That doesn't bode well for the crowded field of candidates who have been attempting to woo voters in the country's two earliest voting states for months now.

In - person voting doesn't begin until Oct. 24, so state Democrats are now strongly urging voters to vote by mail — including in a letter from President Barack Obama paid for by the partIn - person voting doesn't begin until Oct. 24, so state Democrats are now strongly urging voters to vote by mail — including in a letter from President Barack Obama paid for by the partin a letter from President Barack Obama paid for by the party.

And let's not forget the advice the Times also gave: «For state races, the best advice for New York voters is to vote against anybody who has done time in Albany.»

Some states (Wikipedia counts twelve) hold closed primaries, where only party members may vote in a particular party's primary, thus disenfranchising independent voters, and even voters registered to parties that do not hold their own primary.

A clear majority of voters (59 - 21) say all candidates for state office should sign a pledge in support of a nonpartisan independent redistricting commission — a victory for both former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, whose PAC, New York Uprising, is pushing candidates to do just that; and also for AG Andrew Cuomo, who is calling for citizens and candidates alike to sign his reform pledge.

She noted the Constitution doesn't require candidates to live in the district they're seeking to represent, although generally living in another state entirely is a tough sell with voters (perhaps there's a different standard for former football stars).

In the United States specifically, it would ultimately be up to the voters to stop them but, seeing as how the voters were the ones that put those representatives there in the first place, there wouldn't be much to do to stop them should they have enough supporIn the United States specifically, it would ultimately be up to the voters to stop them but, seeing as how the voters were the ones that put those representatives there in the first place, there wouldn't be much to do to stop them should they have enough supporin the first place, there wouldn't be much to do to stop them should they have enough support.

Here's a quick example of how NOT to do GOTV — a Republican political «operative» (a word that always amuses me) has been flooding swing - state voters» phones with spam texts detailing how horrible Barack Obama is (he's in favor of the «gay agenda,»...

Tthe special elections on Long Island and in Lower Manhattan offer voters a chance to do the unprecedented: to replace, in the space of one day, two former members of New York State's ruling triumvirate, both of whom are scheduled to be sentenced in the coming weeks after being convicted on corruption charges.

Andrew Rawnsley stated in The Observer, «Mrs Thatcher did not quote Hayek to voters.

The public doesn't want a rerun, we urge the governor and state lawmakers to take a new approach — one that discusses the people's business in the open, where voters can judge the work.»

On Wednesday, he did his own analysis of the voter purge in Brooklyn, crunching the numbers from the state voter file and looking at how Kings County routinely purges thousands of people from the rolls every year.

Most registered voters in New York State do not want former Governor George Pataki to make a presidential bid in 2012.

Currently, 19 % of registered voters in New York State think Paterson is doing either an excellent or good job in office.

64 % of registered voters in New York State say Cuomo is doing either an excellent or good job in office.

There has been an uptick in voters who assert Cuomo does not represent all regions of New York State.

But even if candidates for Congress at least know that they will face voters on June 26, this news does nothing for those in the State Assembly or State Senate and those who hope to join that club.

Voter fraud in New York is not considered common or widespread, and New York officials at the state Board of Elections say those concerns don't take into consideration the machines voters use to cast their ballot.

Next month voters will decide whether they want to change the way redistricting is done in New York state by voting on a ballet amendment that would change the state's constitution.

«My message of reforming and changing the way business is done in New York has been resonating with voters across the political spectrum and while I remain a Republican, I don't think my independent message has connected with state Republican leaders who seem intent on continuing the losing formula that all but guarantees a third term for Democrat Andrew Cuomo,» Giambra said in a statement.

The chairman praised «his political skill in getting it done is the reason why the voters of New York have rewarded our party in a very difficult Democratic state.»

Meanwhile, 41 percent of voters do not back a proposal that would create a payroll tax in order to circumvent the $ 10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions.

A new Marist College poll finds 56 percent of registered voters in New York State approve of the job Governor Andrew Cuomo is doing in office.

[Most upstate voters do not believe the ethics reforms included in the 2015 - 16 state budget agreement go far enough or will help curtail corruption....]

«Women are actually the vast majority of voters in New York State, and I don't think we should be pigeonholed in a separate party,» said Scharff, who is also executive director of Citizen Action of New York.

That doesn't mean that McCain is the only Republican spending time and attention courting voters in the state.

For one, unlike fifteen other states — all but one of which outperformed New York in 2016 — we don't have same - day voter registration.

Thumbs Up for Governor Paterson's Performance in Office: A majority of registered voters in New York State think Governor David Paterson is doing either an excellent or good job in office.