Sentences with phrase «as voters do»

Mr. Cuomo should be using his considerable leverage and political skills to take the problem as seriously as voters do.

As I said progressives need to develop a language of solidarity and not one of conflict between generations - particuarly as voters don't perceive a conflict to exist.

Reports from other parts of the state also show general apathy as voters did not turn out to vote, while in some cases few voters were seen on the queue.

Not exact matches

«They're not thrilled that he's already jumping ship to run for higher office because that's exactly what he campaigned against and what he promised he wouldn't do, be a ladder - climbing career politician,» Petersen said, noting a JTD strategies poll that found half of Missouri voters think Hawley could be using his attorney general career as a stepping stone to higher office.

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

But voters — whether out of poor understanding or personal aspiration — don't seem to be pressing the issue as much as the president would imply.

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

Black voters in red states should vote as they usually do for candidates, down the ballot — and leave their choice for President blank.

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?

If he can convince American voters that what they're beholding has as much to do with the egos of the actors as with the egregiousness of his acts, he has inoculated himself against Robert Mueller, and he shapes the movie that's made of this.

Not only do we think black voters should abstain from voting for the Democratic presidential nominee in red states, we also think black voters should continue their role as pivotal voters in battleground states.

As they enthusiastically did in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out in massive numbers this November in states where their votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

Going along with anti-establishment and populist sentiments, Eurasia Group says politicians could be forced by voters «to shift toward a more zero - sum approach to global economic competition and to look as if they're doing something about lost jobs.»

Unfortunately for Trump, the failure to release his tax returns leads one to conclude, as Warren Buffett recently did, that there is something in his tax returns he doesn't want American voters to see.

Roughly 40 percent of voters said they approved of the job Obama is doing as president, though they were split over whether they expected the economy to improve or worsen in the coming year.

But as Congress moves toward repealing the mandate as part of tax reform, voters, legislators and industry experts have flocked to its defense, pointing out that doing away with it would cause already high premiums for individual health plans to rise by 10 percent.

Although Chinese rulers do not have to face voters to stay in office, as Trump will likely do in four years, they have a far more intuitive sense that it is their ability to deliver economic prosperity rather than their ideological purity that will keep them in power.

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

The changed legal positions already advanced by Sessions means minority voters looking to prove that the state's strict voter ID law is intentionally discriminatory will probably have to do without the federal government's backing, as will transgender students who argue that the law allows them to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

In doing this we used a suite of models produced by the data science team, which outlined profiles such as undecided voters or inactive supporters, and matched these audiences to online cookies, mobile devices, and social IDs.

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.

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.

But 38 percent of Republicans said he should be removed from his position as administrator of the EPA, compared with 21 percent of Republicans who said he shouldn't, while 40 percent of registered GOP voters said they didn't know or had no opinion.

The Academy's membership demographics have changed more in the last four years than in the previous 20, and as a result, we know less about what voters will or won't do than we ever have.

Trudeau said his sense from voters across Canada is the Canadian economy has performed generally well over the last few decades, but they don't feel their families and communities are performing as well.

Put another way: so long as a sufficient number of voters are willing to cast their lot with the Conservative party, Tony Clement can do with the public accounts what he likes with no responsibility to stand in his place in the House of Commons and explain himself.

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.

If, by chance, Mr. Allen did resign as MLA, voters in the northern Alberta constituency would choose a new representative in a by - election.

Kenney faces another potential liability — that, as unpopular as the Notley NDP is, voters also don't want a swift return to the arrogance and entitlement of the old Alberta Tory regime.

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.

-- «Goodbye, neighborhood polling places — 5 counties switch to mega-vote centers,» by CALmatters» Rhonda Lyons: «This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer «one - stop vote centers» — an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last midterm elections.»

The conservative politician who can listen to members of the other political coalition like Reagan did, and who can learn to respond to the arguments of the other side (as opposed to just posturing for the amusement of their own side), won't just win over those who currently think of themselves as swing - voters.

Why do they frame this question as though it would make a difference to black voters?

Especially seeing as how 76 % of Texas voters opted to ban both gay marriage and civi unions, I don't think they really are very sympathetic to the message these atheists are trying to put out.

So, voters have more respect for someone who believes strongly even if the voter sees those beliefs as untrue and wrong, than for someone who does not believe?

Nevertheless, as a potential voter, I would prefer to think that the leaders of whichever party I favor have done everything they can to nominate a quality candidate before I have to make a choice.

I am white and I supported President Obama in both elections as did many other white voters so it wasen't just the black community that got President Obama elected..

We can dismiss his socialism as an unworkable throwback, but he's doing something our political establishment can't or won't, which is to inspire the political imaginations of middle class voters.

And how often does «care for the poor» register as an important political issue among evangelical voters?)

And the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate agreed with him, as did the vast majority of rank - and - file members and Democratic voters.

@Howard — As a republic, which is a version of representative democracy, it means we do not have a true or direct democracy where each law would be voted on by each citizen, but an elected representative for larger groups of people that gets to cast the vote, which may or may not at times represent the will of the voters who elected the representative.

However, after reading this many times, I still do not understand what this means for practical living as a voter.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

An August 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46 %) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about «the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right»; 42 % said they agree with the conservative Christian movement and roughly one - in - ten (11 %) said they disagree (based on registered voters).

The Democrats» present failure stems from their presumption that on economic issues they win by default, that non-wealthy voters know their own material interests» those historically opposed or left unaddressed by Republicans» and do not require instruction or reminding as to which party is on their side.

Despite a slogan («Make America Great Again») that targeted oldster nostalgia and irritated young nonwhites whose ancestors were either in some other country or barred from voting in this one when America was allegedly great — and despite his stranger - than - fiction gaffes and scandals, Trump did almost exactly as well as Romney had among young voters.

Just as Ryan keeps insisting, contrary to all evidence and common sense, that people don't care whether you cut their taxes or those of their bosses, he will keep insisting that his unpopular policies will win over Democratic - leaning voters, even as those voters keep voting Democrat.

Finally, the affirming voter does not use the vote as a form of protest.

To conclude, here are some specific things Christians can do as individuals in their roles as citizens and voters.