Sentences with phrase «actually gets voted»

But that's only if the results are overwhelming and a legitimately bad player actually gets voted in.

But it's hard not to notice that the Romney people are sort of bragging about picking up delegates and not about actually getting votes.

Or maybe this is all some cartoonishly devious plan from Cuomo - stan to actually get the votes of progressives who hate him, though we doubt it.

«So we're completely eliminating the requirement that they try out the public schools, which is the condition we actually got the votes to pass that bill the last time?»

They have to remember that very few «dictators» actually get voted out of Office.

Not exact matches

Harwood: Do you think Trump actually believes the things he says about Mexico and immigrants, or is he performing, trying to get votes?

The Arizona Senator, though, gets props for, alone among the Republicans, actually campaigning for the Hispanic vote.

In fact, it gets a vote where it actually counts — where it could result in a victory.

«Leave» backer with a year to go to Brexit: «I am never going to vote again» U.K. voter gets disheartened by a watered - down BrexitAs of Thursday, there is now exactly one year to go before Brits actually leave the European Union.

Be reminded that many of our conservative politicians don't actually subscribe to this ideology, but it gets votes.

It is more of a convenience to lie get 20 % of the vote, than what they actually believe.

Obama won because he convinced more people to vote for him, and they actually got off their a $ $ es, waited in the long lines, and did it.

Maybe the media should focus on the real issues instead of the religion of the candidates we might actually get some info to use for making an intelligent decision in the voting booth.

If this guy gets votes just because he is religious to the extent he might actually have a chance in the race... well it goes to show there are seriously too many primitive Americans out there and the education system is failing...

Actually, most evangelical bible belters get most of their info from their pastor who also tells them how to vote.

In the meantime, I'll stump for Obama every chance I get, to my living breathing friends, who actually VOTE!

Actually, on election day, instead of voting, I am going to invoke the power of prayer and spend the day praying as I know that this will get more people out to the polls to vote for Mitt Romney.

(Iowa actually got more votes as a No. 5 seed than as a No. 4, but no other team among strong also - rans Michigan, Xavier and Rhode Island got enough support to displace the Hawkeyes.)

However, if they had voted for Gore (in spite of him actually being their second preference) then he would have won, and they would have got their second - best candidate, rather than their worst (well, Pat Buchanan ran in that election, so probably their second - worst in practice).

Those are just the tools — to put them to work, the campaign will need an email strategy, a recruitment strategy, a social media strategy, a grassroots strategy (often including a mobile component), an advertising strategy, a fundraising strategy, and last but never least, a turnout operation to actually get people to vote.

«It was one of the first bills I actually voted on when I finally got seated and I found it very ironic here I was in a gerrymandered district that had been drawn by for Republican Party and here I was voting for this and I stood up and said I don't support this because it enshrines our gerrymandered districts in the constitution and it's not an independent panel.»

But in competitive districts the new targeting scheme makes it possible for campaign assemblages to leverage their considerable resources to actually expand the electorate in significant ways, both in terms of persuasion efforts and get - out - the - vote efforts — and when the stakes are high enough, even through voter registration efforts.

The communications world may be social media - obsessed these days, but people still go to campaign websites to get information about whom they might actually, you know, vote for.

This means his share of the vote can get very high without actually winning any councils or MPs.

Liz B points out to me that they've actually had the status before when they ran «grandpa» Al Munster (no joke) in 1998 and got more than 52,000 votes.

Off - year elections are typically low - turnout, which puts a premium on identifying supporters and getting them off their duffs and actually voting.

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.

This system is designed to avoid a situation where a party receives a large share of the votes in an area but doesn't actually get many seats (e.g. coming a close second in every constituency but not winning any).

Ironically were the Conservatives comeback to fail to fire at the local elections the SNP would find it harder to get their vote out come June 8 and a low turnout could actually see more of their seats fall to unionist parties.

Meanwhile, in case anyone is wondering whether their pestering of voters before they actually vote was a bit dodgy, they assured us they'd got permission from all the relevant bodies.

Joining the Lords I got announced a week before I gave birth, so in terms of life - changing events, having the baby was way more impactful... It was actually Neil and Glenys Kinnock who told me, «If you want to vote with your baby, sit in the voting lobby before the vote's called.

Given the relative weakness of the left in the PLP, as witnessed by the problems Diane Abbott and John McDonnell had in getting nominations for the leadership election, his 121 votes should actually be hailed a triumph, as it represents both the respect in which he is held by many in the centre of the Party as well as on the left.

If voters were to approve it, they would vote again the following November to select delegates to represent them at the convention, which would actually get underway in April 2019.

But it has to wrap up by 4 pm, the government itself has tabled dozens of its own amendments (in addition to the ones tabled by rebel backbenchers) and, at this stage, it is not clear how many votes we will actually get.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

Let's not get too excited, though, because there's still that little detail of actually going out to vote on November 2nd.

Actually he got about 1.8 million votes?

We'll then get the chance to actually vote on the amendments.

In 2016, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump got a sum total of zero (or negative votes) from the ~ 50 % of voters who voted for him; with 25 % of voters from his downvoting Hillary; and 25 % of Hillary's voters downvoting Trump; with the same happening on D side - which would actually let Gary Johnson win as he would get almost no downvotes.

Frankly I think the Republicans don't actually have any facts, they just want to say the word Cuomo and Mosque in the same sentence and hope there's enough blind anti-Islam prejudice out there to get whomever the nominee is a few votes.

Alternatively, a Democrat wins in a gubernatorial election statewide, even with NYC under voting its registration weight, if they can surpass 40 percent Upstate (Democrats actually carried Upstate in 2006 and 2010), 45 percent in the Suburbs (Democrats carried the Suburbs in 2006, 2010 and 2014), if they exceed to 70 percent of the NYC vote (Democrats got closer to 80 than 70 percent of the NYC vote in 2006, 2010 and 2014).

On top of that, a recent reform added yet another category of additional seats to deal with some paradoxes of the old system (under very specific conditions, a vote for a party could actually reduce the number of seats it would get).

The pollsters get opinions from everyone that picks up the phone, but determining which of those people will actually show up to vote is the challenge.

«I actually believe I will get a significant vote on the East Side,» he said.

TLDR; in statistics, a mean value is meaningless unless you know the confidence interval for a given error probability (any poll saying that candidate Y will get X votes actually tells, in the fine print, something like «we are 95 % sure that the candidate will receive at least X-error votes and at most X + error votes»)

Update: I'm told that while the campaign finance reports listed the work as «polls» the work conducted by Red Horse was actually for a get - out - the - vote operation and phone work as well.

While I am not aware of any such statistics, the only somewhat reliable way of getting such an estimate would be to compile a list of polling stations which functioned regularly throughout the entire day, voters assigned to those polling stations and the percentage of those people who actually did cast a vote.

The House of Laity actually voted in favour of appointing women to the post, but didn't quite get the two - thirds majority for the reform to take place.

A more likely scenario is that they remain neutral, which means Cuomo merely needs to get two thirds of the members who are actually voting — minus those abstaining.