Sentences with phrase «as voters from»

As voters from the major organizations begin to cast their votes — the New York Film Critics Circle, whose awards will be announced Thursday, SAG, and so on — they should not forget the joy, verve, and comedic skill that Haddish brought to Girls Trip and help build momentum for an Oscar campaign.
A second special election will take place in Westchester on April 24, as voters from New Rochelle and Pelham vote to select their next...
QUEENS — A heated primary among Queens Democrats will come to an end Tuesday, as voters from New York's redrawn 6th Congressional District head out to the polls.

Not exact matches

Mark it as a missed opportunity for the Republican nominee to soften an image now drawing record disapproval ratings from voters.
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.
As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.
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.
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.
States permit poll watchers so long as they are registered, trained, and abide by state rules designed to make sure voters aren't impeded or intimidated while getting to and from the polls.
Trump has won support from Republican voters for selling himself as a Washington outsider.
In the past, both moviegoers and Oscars voters have proven willing to separate art from troubled artists in the past, handing nominations and awards to stars such as Woody Allen and Roman Polanski.
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.
If Chinese leaders are as sophisticated as most people believe, they must have another longer - term objective for the summit aside from attempting to influence Taiwan's voters.
As Clinton gets closer to securing her party's nomination, Democratic voters believe it is important that she throw a bone to her party's base; 52 percent of them said it is important for her to choose a liberal as her running mate, and 41 percent said that it was important for that person to be from outside of Washington, D.As Clinton gets closer to securing her party's nomination, Democratic voters believe it is important that she throw a bone to her party's base; 52 percent of them said it is important for her to choose a liberal as her running mate, and 41 percent said that it was important for that person to be from outside of Washington, D.as her running mate, and 41 percent said that it was important for that person to be from outside of Washington, D.C.
Voters in Austin, Texas, over the weekend rejected a measure, Proposition 1, that would have exempted drivers from required fingerprinting as part of their background checks.
The Cruz algorithm was then applied to what the campaign calls an «enhanced voter file,» which can contain as many as 50,000 data points gathered from voting records, popular websites and consumer information such as magazine subscriptions, car ownership and preferences for food and clothing.
As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.
The voter ID pilot has descended into chaos during the local elections as constituents have been turned away from their polling stations.
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.
Super Tuesday is largely thought to be when the primaries and caucuses move from local to national, as voters in 12 states and one U.S. territory go to the polls next Tuesday, March 1.
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).
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.
Our team used a methodology known as multi-level regression and poststratification to crunch responses from more than 44,000 registered voters with state - level demographics such as gender, income, and education level.
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.
This feedback from the general public gave some indication about the specific issues that would shape the campaign, as the parties jockeyed to garner favour with potential voters.
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.
The Strategic Counsel poll referenced earlier, for example, found that 15 percent of voters ranked the environment as the most important issue, up from three percent in the last election.
Mr. Fildebrandt is sour from a recent interview Ms. Tait published in which she quotes him as claiming the NDP duped Alberta voters by actually implementing promises made during the election (and he later referred to Ms. Tait as a b - list reporter and accused her of auditioning for a job in the Premier's Office — a comment he later retracted).
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.
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 general problem here is that the religious right's God is a lot different from my God (as well as many other moderate voters.)
If it was Dick Morris I would just dismiss it as an attention getting stunt from a guy who makes his living reassuring and fundraising from right - leaning voters and knowing he will still get bookings regardless of whether he is right in the end.
Back then, during his first bid for president, he faced opposition from candidates including Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister and favorite of evangelical voters who billed himself as the «Christian leader.»
Selma, director Ava Duvernay's film about the 1965 Voters» Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, has been touted as the best film of the year, thanks in no small...
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.
It is too bad for the rest of us as he seems to be the only potential candidate with the chance to form a nominating coalition from social conservative and somewhat conservative voters — and he would be our best chance to get a Republican nominee who is not in the orbit of the lobbying industry.
This was the same share as in 2012, and an increase from 37 percent of GOP voters in 2008.
Again, as with the Protestants, Catholic Perot voters were drawn from the least religiously observant.
As I flew back from Dublin to Edinburgh I read the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent the headline of which was «POLL: Act Now on Abortion say voters» with the story continuing: «The most seismic shift [in the Irish public's attitude to abortion] is that a clear majority (56 %) now favour a new referendum to repeal the current position, which gives equal right to life to the mother and foetus.»
Now, as he wages an uphill battle for the Republican nomination, Perry is emphasizing his Christian commitment even more than in the past, trying to line up support from conservative Christian leaders and religious voters nationwide.
The result is that half of the Catholic electorate felt it was being judged as voting «against the Church,» even though such voters weren't actually dissenting from Catholic teaching.
Why is a guy with a record as impressive as Huntsman's getting so little attention from Republican voters?
Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).
Rodriguez joined assistant editor Morgan Lee and editor - in - chief Mark Galli to discuss why the church should not retreat from culture, what led 60 percent of Latino evangelicals to vote for Trump, and why Christians should register as independent voters.
Rubio exhibited a slight inverse trend from 20 - 27 % with his support rising slightly as religious motivation among voters went down.
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