Sentences with phrase «winning swing votes»

Winning swing votes will be in vain if Labour has not also got its working - class vote out and reconnected with disillusioned liberal opinion, too.

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this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

The Catholic vote is one of the largest swing blocs in the country, voting for the winning presidential candidates from both parties in recent elections.

They'll also have to win over an audience full of visiting buyers and retailers in the process, as their votes may help swing the judges» decision.

He would need to win all of the big swing states to reach the required 270 Electoral College votes.

In 2010, though the Conservatives did not achieve the national vote share they wanted, the party's targeting strategy meant it won 23 more Labour seats and 9 more Liberal Democrat seats than it would have done on a uniform swing.

Stroud has been relative to others a very marginal seat since 1992 as well as a swing seat as its winner's majority has not exceeded 9.1 % of the vote since the 19.2 % majority won in that year.

In May we had a huge swing in Crawley — nine per cent — and missed winning it by only thirty seven votes.

The venue, according to the National Chairman of the NDC, Kofi Portuphy, was strategically selected to help the party win more votes in the swing region.

Mr Sanders won with a majority of 4,078 votes, representing a marginal swing of 1.1 % from the Conservatives in his favour.

We are partnering with Sister District to help elect Democrats in swing districts all over the U.S., and building a program to promote the youth vote to help Democrats win everywhere.

The Conservatives are in third place with 9.4 per cent of the vote and Nick would require a swing of over 30 per cent to win the constituency.

Despite remaining in opposition for its third election in a row, Labour at 40.0 % won its greatest share of the vote since 2001, made a net gain of 30 seats to reach 262 total MPs, and, with a swing of 9.6 %, [127] achieved the biggest percentage - point increase in its vote share in a single general election since 1945.

Mack won the race after absentee ballots, which were counted last, swung the race by more than 40,000 votes.

With 194 marginal constituencies (those with majorities of 10 % or less) that can be won by an opposing party with just a 5 % swing, the youth vote could be the deciding factor in which party makes it into power on May 7th 2015.

Mhairi Black, who becomes the UK's youngest MP at the age of 20, overturned former shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander's majority of 16,600 in Paisley and Renfrewshire South to win by 5,684 votes - a swing of 27 % from Labour to the SNP.

The Labour Party polled below expectations and won 30.4 % of the vote and 232 seats, 24 fewer than their previous result in 2010, even though in 222 constituencies there was a Conservative to Labour swing, as against 151 constituencies where there was a Labour to Conservative swing.

They also won the seat of former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, overturning a majority of 23,009 to win by a majority of 9,974 votes and saw Mhairi Black, then a 20 - year - old student, defeat Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander with a swing of 26.9 %.

There is a danger for Labour of not winning so many seats as uniform swing would suggest if their vote gains are disproportionately concentrated in areas where the Liberal Democrats did relatively well in 2010.

Rump squeaked by in the electoral by winning enough swing states (by less then a point) and 46 % of the total vote.

The result of the contest was not as planned: the Conservative Party candidate, Ronald Buxton, won with a majority of 205 votes, a swing from Labour of 8.7 %.

Maps showing winning party, party vote shares, swing since 2010, electorate and turnout for the General Election held on 7th May 2015.

They have certain partisan advantages for seeing it go to the floor: a vote either way for many Democrats in swing districts could help the GOP win back their seats.

Democrats will swing their vote behind Crist before they let a Republican win the Senate.

David Cameron believes we failed to win a majority because we didn't reassure enough swing voters (and not because the core vote was marginalised)

The reason the party did not win a majority, he said, was because not enough people trusted the party with their vote and that more reassurance needed to be given to swing voters so that they could vote Conservative with confidence and without fear.

George Galloway won relatively easily with a huge swing from the other parties (Labour's vote collapsed, but so did the Conservative and Lib Dem vote).

Ukip are set to win their first Commons seat with a landslide 64 per cent of the vote following the biggest swing in modern political history.

The respected psephologist John Curtice has calculated that the Tories could gain 71 seats from Labour without winning a higher share of the vote than in 2001, simply by a swing to the Lib Dems splitting the progressive vote in our marginals.

• Much commentary has centred on Labour's win in Plymouth, forgetting to mention that Plymouth voted heavily to leave, and that over the years the council has swung between Labour, Conservative and no overall control.

The group is not explicitly advocating tactical voting but will aim to win swing voters away from the Conservatives.

Comparing Michael Fassbender to Ashton Kutcher, Seth Rogen to Josh Gad, Oscar - winning director Danny Boyle («Slumdog Millionaire») to Joshua Michael Stern («Swing Vote») and Oscar - winning writer Aaron Sorkin («The Social Network») to Matt Whiteley (no...

While Bush didn't win the «education vote,» he closed the margin dramatically on this traditionally Democratic issue, especially with swing voters.

Shell predicts that the plant will employ 600 workers — a powerful message in a swing state where a thirst for job creation is often cited as a key reason that Donald Trump won Pennsylvania's 20 electoral college votes in November.