Sentences with phrase «as swing votes»

With Tilles saying he will likely support some of those amendments, two other Regents — Wade Norwood of Rochester and Lester Young Jr. from Brooklyn — could be viewed as swing votes.

When $ 16 million in discretionary education funds were doled out this week, the Brooklyn state senator proved once again that he's a master at maximizing his position as the swing vote in the divided legislative body.

It was the questioning of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, widely regarded as the swing vote in this case, that received the closest attention.

Not exact matches

«Watch out for Remain - voting areas swinging towards Labour and Leave - voting areas swinging towards the Tories, much as happened last year,» said Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde.

These losses stabilized to single digits for a number of months, but as primary voting season hit full swing in March 2016, share losses grew again.

While Florida remains the only swing state that's still too close to call, Obama bested his Republican challenger Mitt Romney regardless, as he raked in at least 303 electoral votes during yesterday's election.

As he did last week, Commissioner David Hays provided the swing vote at a jammed meeting at the courthouse in Georgetown, the county seat.

Simcha Felder says he will stick with New York Republicans, even as voters went to the polls in special elections that could make him the swing vote.

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

That's especially true in an election year, when the huge Catholic vote is seen as perhaps the key swing vote in the nation.

I don't think Catholics vote as a block, but if they did, it most likely would swing away from, not toward, the neanderthals.

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.

As the electorate becomes increasingly polarized, we need to do something to allow at least some moderate swing voters in to vote on legislation.

He will probably do well in Kansas, Alabama, and Mississippi, the next states to vote — all southern, all primed for his folksy style and conservative message — but from late March and onwards, the demography swings in Romney favour as Illinois votes.

While it will now be more likely that the justices will divide evenly on difficult cases, Justice Kennedy will remain the swing vote, providing a fifth vote for a majority of progressive justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan), and remaining with the conservatives (Thomas, Roberts and Alito) in tie votes, which will leave the lower court's judgment in place and will not operate as binding precedent on lower courts.

That's about the same as in March (45 - 41, 14), although the discontent of independents — a crucial swing voting bloc — is waned slightly.

Your average «swing» vote is as likely to laugh at any of them because they typically find the whole process laugh worthy.

Throne - Holst and Calone mentioned Zeldin's votes against funding for the Department of Homeland Security and student loans and Pell grants as signs that he is out of touch with the district, and Democrats have indicated they will attempt to paint the foreign policy hawk and only Jewish Republican in Congress as too extreme for the moderate swing district.

Lancman and the New York Democratic Lawyers Council joined together with federal, state and local elected officials to announce a mobilization effort to protect the vote in swing states as well as swing districts within New York State.

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.

As John Curtice has wisely pointed out, if, as some polls suggest, the swing to Labour is greater than the national average in the Remain voting capital, then it must be lower than average in Leave voting provincial EnglanAs John Curtice has wisely pointed out, if, as some polls suggest, the swing to Labour is greater than the national average in the Remain voting capital, then it must be lower than average in Leave voting provincial Englanas some polls suggest, the swing to Labour is greater than the national average in the Remain voting capital, then it must be lower than average in Leave voting provincial England.

Stephens and Souter may have been known as liberals on the court, but they were appointed by Republicans as were the swing votes, O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy.

He believes he is on the edge of a generation who viewed voting as the «done thing», and considers himself politically neutral — a swing voter — unaffiliated to any party.

The press as kingmaker!The Daily Mail swung the 1924 election for the Tories by publishing the forged Zinoviev letter.The use by «The Telegraph» of purloined discs on MPs expenses was more damaging to Labour than the conservatives because it discredited parliament, differential voting did the rest.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

Long regarded as a Republican stronghold, the New York State Senate currently includes 30 Republicans, 28 Democrats and five «swing» seats who identify with the Independent Democratic Caucus but typically vote with the Republican bloc.

I think that the polls may continue to swing wildly around for a few months, as we see how the economic situation pans out, I certainly get the impression in Chesterfield that an unusually high number of people are undecided at the moment, though there has certainly been an improvement in the likelihood to vote of Labour supporters in the last two or three months.

Last week, the Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn state senator Simcha Felder showed he knows how to use his position as the divided legislative body's swing vote when it came to allocating $ 16 million in discretionary education funds.

The Democratic duo, who serve as co-chairs of the Council's Progressive Caucus, note Rice was living in a swing state (Pennsylvania) during the crucial 2000 presidential election and failed to vote for then - VP Al Gore.

Little Rock, Arkansas (CNN)-- The campaigns for Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lieutenant Gov. Bill Halter are in full swing Tuesday as each candidate in the Arkansas Senate Democratic primary tries to get enough votes to break the requisite 50 - percent mark to avoid a run - off.

Compared to Trump, Clinton has pulled far ahead with female voters (58 % to his 35 %) as well as white Catholics (51 % to 45 %), a swing voting demographic.

«The core vote became the swing vote», as Ed Miliband put it during the Labour leadership contest.

Ex labour, I'll defend you to Kevin berry who said that you're a Tory, because you say labour is swinging towards the left, I take it you're saying that as you don't want to happen, aTory would like labour to swing towards the left as it'll put us out of power for years, but I'd hardly compare 43 m.p.s voting against a piece of legislation including Nick Brown and Frank Field the equivalent of Hatton

Democrats are going to come out of the woodwork in droves to vote against her and it could very well swing the Governors race as well as Chief Financial Officer, Attorney General and some close US House races, like districts 9, 13, and 22.

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.

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.

If, instead of 52 (with some fringe) and 48 locked against, it was 52-4-44 with the 4 operating as swing - votes, then those 4 might wield a lot of power.

For Scots to vote as this poll suggests would require a huge swing, the like of which has never been seen before in British politics.

They already have the cranky old timers» vote as part of their base — the swing in the middle is the soccer mom.

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 %.

Enough Rockland County voters voted NO on Vanderhoef to keep him as County Exec and swing the election to Carlucci.

I do nt think it's former labour voters that make up the missing votes, as most gave died, but the ones who stopped voting labour went to ukip, and they're not going to fine back, if labour swing to the left.

«Whilst Joan Ryan was setting up Labour No to AV and building the national campaign as the deputy campaign director — particularly working out the core vote / swing vote strategy — Jane Kennedy spoke at about two hundred meetings of constituency Labour parties.

Almost all of those seats voted overwhelmingly for Unionist parties, and there was a modest swing away from UCUNF of 2.6 % (as compared to the UUP's 2005 result).

Amedore, whose brief stint as a Senator went down into the record books as New York's shortest (he was actually seated before the final vote count swung against him in January 2013), answered his own phones in his Albany - area office at the start and reiterated much of his campaign rhetoric from 2012.

The Cook Political Report Partisan Vote index, which factors in both of those presidential races and other factors, rates 18 of the 61 Obama - Republican districts as Democratic - leaning, while 36 lean toward Republicans and another seven are rated as bona fide swing districts.

I think Lynton Crosby (and all at Conservative Central Office) must be pinning their hopes on a swing back in the last few days / hours / as people cast their votes.

GORDONABNERVON I think Lynton Crosby (and all at Conservative Central Office) must be pinning their hopes on a swing back in the last few days / hours / as people cast their votes.

The double blow was dismissed at the time as a protest vote, and the decision of the electorate, with a 29.2 % swing to Labour from People's Voice, five years later would seem to support that.

In Both the 92 and 2010 elections, there were bigger swings towards us from the middle class than the working class, for different reasons, maybe those who came to us in 92 were Ex SDP, voting for us after it's collapse, and the working class, were sticking too the Tories in Essex, as they hadn't lost so much under the recession, and weren't losing their jobs in the city, the way the middle class were, and read the Suns twaddle about labour saying they'd put the basic rate of tax, when we said we weren't going too.