Sentences with phrase «as voters become»

Greenberg says it's important to remember that it's early in the campaign season and the numbers will certainly change as voters become more familiar with the candidates.

Some fear the existence of filter bubbles increase political partisanship as voters become less exposed to those who don't share their opinions.

Not exact matches

As time has passed and America's internal political impasse has deepened almost to the bone, it has become clear how voters might wish to punish one party but not necessarily want to reward the other: roughly half the public, or more, dislikes the major parties.

American politics have become hyper - partisan and voters don't shift sides anywhere near as often as mainstream media coverage suggests.

Voters that embraced what became known as the pink tide that swept away the pro-Washington, free - market policies dominant in the 1990s are increasingly tuning hostile against the populist firebrands they once rallied behind.

The Republican wave in 2010 was fueled by voter backlash against Obama's policies, headlined by the health care law that quickly became known as «Obamacare.»

She questioned whether a single revelation could have persuaded some voters not to vote for Trump, saying «there's been a huge erosion of trust» as media outlets had allowed themselves to «become discredited» by partisans and politicians seeking to engage in a battle of disinformation.

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.

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.

The hard - right Alternative for Germany (AfD) becomes the third - largest group in the national parliament, the Bundestag, as German voters delivered a stinging blow to the traditional parties.

As it becomes clear Donald Trump's candidacy for president will be more than a sideshow this year, the probable Republican nominee is making his pitch to Christian voters.

The battle between Driehaus and a group of progressive Catholic supporters on the one hand and religious conservatives on the other is a reminder that abortion has become a key issue in the midterm elections in parts of the country, even as the economy and jobs remain voters» top concern.

While I agree that some voters have yet to fully immerse themselves in the debate it is already becoming almost impossible to avoid the core arguments — the arguments are now dominating print and broadcast media, as well as social media.

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

These will become strong issues, and Astorino will accurately be protrayed as too far to the right for majority New York voters.

However, as the years went on and the complexity and ramifications of leaving the EU became apparent, voters who thought they knew a lot realized how little they knew.

Incentives of # 650 million had been implemented to encourager councils to maintain last year's council tax levels, as minister became nervous at the political ramifications of voters paying more for reduced services.

Voters weren't asked to conceive of the Labour Party as a direct representation of working - class interests in aggregate — politics became about choosing which group of elites offered the best deal to you as an individual.

Beyond a few places where obviously the card reader was by - passed as evidenced in the kind of figures shown as indicated in our reports of the 2015 elections, if we examine critically the credible margin of election results, figures from recent elections and the more recent ones in Kogi and Bayelsa, from those declared, showing a reasonable and realistic reflection of voter turn - out, which are credible, dignified figures, we can say hopefully today that the era of invidious moon - slide and landslide bogus election results are fast becoming a thing of the past in this country.

When you have millions of them, these details become priceless, as they allow candidates to construct a relationship with activists and voters that in previous election cycles would have been impossible.

They saw that online organizing has become as central to modern political campaigning as direct mail, field organizing, advertising and media relations, and that the the internet can in fact become the backbone of campaign functions from fundraising to turning out voters on election day.

Balls has also run three marathons and learned to play the piano while on the Labour frontbench, as well as becoming chairman of Norwich City FC and turning his hand to writing about cooking since rejection by the voters of Morley & Outwood.

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.

For his part, a victorious Mr. Rangel also weighed in on the issue yesterday, issuing a statement to the press declaring, «Although there was no evidence found, I look forward to working with him to uncovering any possibility of voter suppression or fraud, as well as to foster reconciliation and unity across the communities that became divided during the campaign.»

Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has told Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship that MPs» expenses should be abolished, as they have become «toxic» to most voters.

They claim that her supposed campaign will seek to urge voters to vote for Nana Addo, and reject the parliamentary candidate in what has become known as «skirt and blouse» voting in Ghana.

In 2001, The Guardian journalist Polly Toynbee writing about Gordon Brown's obsession with the public private partnership (PPP) for London Underground, said: «By personally driving through the public - private partnership against expert advice, and against the will of most MPs and voters, this has now become the Gordon Brown Memorial tube: every late train, failed signal and heat - fainting passenger is his fault as from last week.»

That same month, in a bid to set the party back on course, Clegg launched what later became known as his «masochism strategy» — a nod to the phrase Tony Blair used to describe his own encounters with angry voters around the time of the Iraq war in 2003.

He became the eighth Democratic member of what is known as the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), a breakaway faction that caucuses with Republicans in the New York Senate, effectively giving the GOP a majority in a chamber that voters have all but decided should be in Democratic control.

The WFP leadership has become just another self - serving political faction more interested in their personal power and patronage, just use the name working families as a advertising slogan to mislead the voters,» added Hawkins, a teamster who is the only union member running for Governor.

If it did appear that the coalition was becoming permanent, expect the Green vote to skyrocket as a large number of voters (and members) defect.

And while with more voters the standard deviation becomes larger in absolute terms, it becomes smaller as a percentage of the vote.

Opinion polls suggest that David Cameron's lead will grow as soon as he succeeds Tony Blair, his Budget flopped with voters, his nose excavation habits have become a pick of YouTube (thanks to Guido) and his former Cabinet colleague Charles Clarke is desperately organising a leadership challenge to him.

After the defeats in the 1997 general election and 2001 general election, the Conservative Party began decisive moves towards becoming more centrist; the 2002 — 2003 party chairman and future Prime Minister, Theresa May, would later state that it had been perceived by voters as the «Nasty Party».

Also this week, as it becomes clearer that Labour voters could hold the key to the referendum's final result we hear from two of the party's MPs on opposite sides of the divide.

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When Dr. Nduom went for Miss Eva Lokko for Election 2012, we laughed him to scorn as a politically misguided «busy - body» because at the time, Miss Lokko had become so objectionable as a public figure that no serious politician would associate with to prevail over voters.

The caveat, of course, is a lot could change once the details of the charges facing Skelos become clear — as does the reaction from voters.

Cleary, Team Cuomo sees these local races as an opportunity to reach voters in an «off» election year on what has become Cuomo's signature issue in this cycle.

I'd hazard a guess poll conducted in the week after Hilary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee, is going to skew results simply because the question «ready now a female president» could easily be conflated with «ready for Hilary Clinton as president» for a portion of either party's voters.

«The ratings give voters a scorecard on how their individual legislator voted and how many times they force local governments — reeling from unfunded mandates — to raise taxes or nanny state proposals that interfere in how we choose to live our lives... As long as voters continue to hold Legislators responsible, we believe New York will become a business friendly place that people no longer have to flee in order to save on taxes.&raquAs long as voters continue to hold Legislators responsible, we believe New York will become a business friendly place that people no longer have to flee in order to save on taxes.&raquas voters continue to hold Legislators responsible, we believe New York will become a business friendly place that people no longer have to flee in order to save on taxes.»

This sort of disassociation from the powers - that - be on Capitol Hill is fast becoming a trend as the midterm elections approach and voter disgust with the status quo reaches new heights.

I am tired of America becoming more of an oligarchy and I blame the TEAPublicans and the poorly informed voters they manipulate with the nonsense you put out as propaganda on behalf of you political masters.

«All I can say is we would welcome him to South Carolina to get to know the voters here, just as we would anyone who is thinking about running for president,» Robertson said in an interview a week after he became the Democratic Party chair.

This is driven, of course, by the overwhelming support of young voters, but also by white Catholics, who have grown more open - minded on gay rights as they have become more affluent and educated, and as their children return from college with more liberal attitudes.

But as Britain slips back into recession, and as voters in Europe tire of austerity, Labour is uniting around a message that the coalition's deficit reduction plan is fast becoming a liability.

Ornstein says a part of the reason gridlock is so persistent on Capitol Hill these days is because voters have become as polarized as lawmakers.

By the end, when it became clear there was no such thing as a «soft» SNP voter, our campaign in Scotland narrowed its focus to an appeal to Conservative and Labour supporters to vote tactically in Liberal Democrat seats to keep the SNP out.

Secondly, as far as ordinary voters were concerned, the 1960s saw the beginnings of what has become that great enterprise, the British Election Study.

For English voters, the question will now become — as it was always going to be — what happens to us?