Sentences with phrase «as a voter on»

But in terms of the Conservative electoral coalition, Brexit has produced a less ambiguous effect: the party has absorbed a large portion of the former UKIP vote, as voters on the authoritarian side of the political spectrum have migrated, or returned, to a Conservative Party that now promises concrete, credible action to regain control of the borders.

Soyebi said that the Kogi Governor had earlier carried out his first registration as a voter on January 30, 2011, at Wuse Zone 4, Abuja.

Not exact matches

Deprivation angered Greek voters, destroying any possibility of building a broad consensus on sensible economic reforms — such as creating a tax system that would force the some of the world's most notorious tax dodgers to contribute to the running of the government.

As such, it is likely that the center - right candidate from Forza Italia, Paolo Romani, is elected due to the alliance gaining more voters than the Five Star Movement back on the March 4 vote.

Considering Trump has convinced voters that he's qualified for the position based on his experience as a businessman, an endorsement from Bloomberg, a successful billionaire businessman, could help Clinton win over some voters, especially swing voters and moderate Republicans wary of a Trump presidency.

The loss of that clause, which liberals had seen as a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights movement, makes it easier for states to adopt voting laws that can have an adverse impact on minority voters.

But as the spotlight intensifies on his seemingly inevitable candidacy, does Strauss - Kahn risk overplaying his hand and turning off both the IMF and French voters?

Cambridge Analytica is under investigation in both the U.S. and the U.K. for the way it obtained data on as many as 87 million users from Facebook and for whether it used that data to target voters on behalf of the Trump campaign in the U.S. and the Brexit referendum in the U.K.

As head of the IMF, Strauss - Kahn isn't allowed to comment directly on French politics, but he came pretty close during a Paris G20 press conference, addressing issues that would appear to be of more interest to French voters than the content of the international economic gathering.

For Democrats, who traditionally rely on young voters as a core part of their coalition, the picture isn't much prettier.

Using social media tools, you can learn much about voters and candidates this way, as well as your customers and competitors on an ongoing basis.

The assertions of voter fraud, which Trump first made shortly after the election, gained traction this week after Trump, as president, repeated them during a closed - door meeting with congressional leaders on Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 9 - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is kicking off an effort to get U.S. small businesses to spend more on advertising as the image of the social media network's ads have taken a hit for their role in alleged Russian attempts to sway U.S. voters.

In recent years, immigrant rights protests shrank as groups diverged and shifted their focus on voter registration and lobbying.

Among the pundits, the New York Times» Paul Krugman has come out behind Clinton, while Noah backs Obama, on the grounds that if all the plans are, as Noah maintains, gradually introducing socialized medicine, there's no point in antagonizing a large bloc of voters with a mandate.

Gingrich won't be visiting the primary states as frequently, and instead will focus on reaching voters through videos and social media.

Now that voters have chosen Donald Trump as the nation's next president, what can they expect from his policies on trade?

Whether «voters» should have direct control over something as technical (and sometimes emotional) as executive compensation is far from clear, which is why most say - on - pay requirements today call only for advisory votes.

There's a good reason why CEOs put their business foot forward: Voters have typically ranked the economy as the No. 1 issue on their minds.

The real estate mogul has cannily understood that despite polling that indicates most Americans see free trade as more of an opportunity than a threat, a large and motivated minority of voters have been yearning for a politician to call into question whether the trade deals we have on the books are good for American workers.

As California puts the finishing touches on a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage by 2022, Morning Consult's policy polling shows that voters nationwide think that's a pretty good idea.

Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm contracted by the RNC as part of a push to ramp up its voter - analytics operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for those two weeks.

The Ontario government pledged on Monday to lower electricity costs for residents of the Canadian province as it sought to provide balm for an issue that has become an irritant with voters.

This is especially true today, as voters are increasingly dependent on the internet for things like locating polling stations in their area.

While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

In the race to advance data - driven electioneering strategies pioneered by successive Obama campaigns, Cruz has turned to Cambridge Analytica for its unparalleled offering of psychological data based on a treasure trove of Facebook «likes», allowing it to match individuals» traits with existing voter datasets, such as who owned a gun.

Italian elections are due to take place during the first half of 2018, and have the potential to deliver another political upset, although recently there have been signs that populist parties — most notably the Five Star Movement, which according to polls enjoys similar levels of support among Italian voters as the ruling Democratic Party — are toning down their calls for a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone.

If parliament gives its nod, Greek voters will be asked to rule on two complex draft documents that detail a proposal by the country's creditors to unlock aid of as much as 15.5 billion euros for Greece in return for sales - tax increases and pension reforms.

The margin of victory shows that Greek voters were immune to media misrepresentation during the week - long run - up as to whether to accept the troika's demand for austerity to be conducted on anti-labor lines.

While some segments of the KMT pointed to the event as a last - minute external factor that swung many voters in DPP's direction in many competitive races, analysts and DPP supporters argue that the video probably only had marginal impact on the electoral outcome.

As Cambridge Analytica's actions revealed, those groups will use data for startling purposes — such as targeting very specific groups of voters with highly customized messages — even if it means violating the policies and professed intentions of one of the most powerful corporations on the planeAs Cambridge Analytica's actions revealed, those groups will use data for startling purposes — such as targeting very specific groups of voters with highly customized messages — even if it means violating the policies and professed intentions of one of the most powerful corporations on the planeas targeting very specific groups of voters with highly customized messages — even if it means violating the policies and professed intentions of one of the most powerful corporations on the planet.

Promoted accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube were started from scratch and maintained to create an organic presence that allowed MAN1 to stay connected, interact with voters where they spend their own time and relay pertinent news as it happened.

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.

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

The Libs are easy to despise for many reasons but the self - righteousness of the NDP and their complete back - and - forth on the issues that I care about as a voter make me equally angry.

Which does rather underline CA's priorities in this project: Obtain, as fast as possible, lots of personal data on US voters, but don't worry much about keeping that personal information safe.

It should come as no surprise that if the rule is put on hold it will most affect voters who supported Trump.

The national income accounts initially were designed by statisticians, but now they're designed by lobbyists, and the lobbyists work in Congress to say here's how we want to depict the economy as if it's actually benefiting the voters instead of specifically benefiting the FIRE sector — Finance, Insurance and Real Estate — which depicts itself as contributing to growth rather than being a parasite on growth, as I've described in Killing the Host.

An opinion poll on Sunday showed 47 per cent of likely voters saying they will back the treaty, 35 per cent saying they will vote No, and 18 per cent as undecided how to vote in the May 31 referendum.

She also blamed the stalemate on partisanship, particularly as lawmakers prepare to face voters in November.

As it turned out, only nine Courtenay - Comox votes — quite possibly from the very people we spoke with on those door steps, and almost certainly from some of those first - time voters we signed - up — currently make up the difference between another Christy Clark Big Money majority and the chance for a fresh start in B.C. politics.

Just as Democrats are becoming increasingly reliant on younger, better - educated, and urbanized voters, Amazon's second headquarters could bring tens of thousands of such workers to a state.

A personality research app he created gathered the personal information on 270,000 Facebook users, as well as data on those users» friends, amplifying the reach to the tens of millions when it passed that data to Cambridge for a voter targeting scheme.

Anyway, it'll be on policy choices that the Trudeau Government stands or falls with Canadian voters, regardless of the effort of the Conservatives to make couture an issue, and while there's plenty to criticize in the Liberal policy book, taken as a package Canadians don't yet seem that dissatisfied with what they're getting.

The larger GRCs are unpopular with voters as they are seen as unfair and undemocratic — allowing politically inexperienced rookies to get elected on the coattails of their heavyweight leaders.

The political firm, which consulted on President Donald Trump's campaign, siphoned data from some 50 million Facebook users as it built an election - consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world.

On Facebook, advertisers can upload lists of voters and supporters to target specific users as well as «lookalike» users who share similar demographics and traits.

I am certain that other Parliamentary Governments will fall as the austerity budgets begin to take a toll on voters of many Western nations.

Unfortunately, we don't yet know the extent of the harm, as is obvious from the news that Russians ads on Facebook targeted voters in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Election experts say Facebook must crack down on inflammatory ads on politically divisive issues such as immigration reform and gun rights, which were used to influence voters during and after the presidential campaign.