Sentences with phrase «about garnering votes»

During the brutal primary, Quinn painted de Blasio as a two - faced, ineffective politician who cared more about garnering votes than building a substantive record.

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And finally, we will argue that sometimes voting support is modest in early years but later garners significant shareholder backing as knowledge about an issue accumulates.»

Anthony Weiner in 2010 and lost, though he did garner about 40 percent of the vote.

Also on hand were state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long and state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, both of whom backed Turner, a businessman who garnered about 40 percent of the vote in his failed effort to unseat Weiner.

Ben Walsh, an independent who ran without the backing of any major political party, clinched the election after garnering about 54 percent of the vote.

De Blasio, seeking his second term in office, garnered about 75 percent of the vote, with nearly 85 percent of precincts reporting late Tuesday night, according to city Board of Election results.

Gordon Brown faces a make or break challenge to his leadership today after Labour trailed humiliatingly behind Ukip in the European elections and was expected to garner about 16 % or 17 % of the vote, its lowest share since the first world war and below the party's worst expectations.

Hawkins has run for many seats in the past, including governor and U.S. Senator, and not come close to winning, but the last time he ran for city council he garnered about 40 percent of the vote.

Her primary rival, businessman Bob Fuehr, garnered about 22 percent of the vote.

According to the latest polls, he stands to garner nearly 10 percent of today's vote; the last time Hawkins ran for governor in 2010, he pulled in about 1 percent....

Clinton is projected by that model to garner about 292 electoral college votes — 22 more than the necessary 270 votes.

Cobb also won a straw poll on Thursday, garnering 35 percent of the vote from 72 voters — about half of the crowd, which organizers pegged at 148.

Mr. Latimer garnered about a total of 117,000 votes — or about 46 % more than the 2013 Democratic county executive candidate...

The Marist poll also included questions about a potential runoff election, in the event none of the candidates garner the necessary 40 percent of the vote to win the primary.

For the record, his Democratic primary opponents were Sal Albanese, Richard Bashner, Robert Gangi and Michael Tolkin, and they garnered about a quarter of the votes.

Both times, he never came close to winning, garnering about 6 percent of the vote in the race for the 20th Senate District last fall and just over 7 percent in 2010 for the 43rd Assembly District, according to records.

Two years ago, Dwire waged a last - minute write in campaign against Finch, garnering about 300 votes in a two - week email campaign.

The groups have garnered enough voting support to send their favorites to the top of the lists, then have seemingly been quite open about achieving their goals.