Sentences with phrase «at voters based»

Not exact matches

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.

Cambridge Analytica worked with a Washington, D.C. - based consulting company, The Herald Group, to promote the NRA's «Trigger the Vote,» aimed at registering voters and getting them to the polls.

Some political observers say Republican overtures to Israel and to Jewish leaders are aimed more at American evangelical voters, a key part of the GOP base, than they are at Jews.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

In November 1992, the voters of Colorado, in a referendum, foreclosed to legislatures at all levels the authority to treat gays and lesbians on the same plane as groups that have suffered discrimination based on race, religion, and gender.

Most digital political professionals will think of voter file / cookie - targeting or IP - targeted online ads when the word «addressable» comes up, but more and more cable and satellite TV providers can now direct ads at specific households based on demographic or voter data.

This discussion will look at how candidates and interest groups in in the U.S. are using Facebook advertising, Twitter, Google Ads, mobile phones, location - based services and older technologies like email and blogs to raise money, mobilize support and get voters to the polls in an important election year, with an emphasis on practical results and the implications for future political campaigns around the world.

I tend to think that the decision facing the Tories is a rather straightforward one, and it essentially consists of not trying to face two ways at once - do you secure your base, who really are losing faith (simple longing for power is all that seems to be keeping the ship afloat for the time being), or do you keep on flirting with LibDem / floating voters and hope that gets you over the line?

Gerrymandering is a problem; a Representative could have their voter base diluted across neighboring districts at the whim of the controlling party.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

For political campaigns, this change means making room in television budgets for additional creative, so that media consultants could run a different ad aimed at persuadable swing voters than they send to likely base voters.

A relevant quote seems Dan Hopkins» 538 Voters Really Did Switch To Trump At The Last Minute, based on their panel interviews:

Democrats are facing an open breach between the demands of their political base and the strict limits of their power, as liberal activists dream of transforming the health care system and impeaching Trump, while candidates in hard - fought elections ask wary independent voters merely for a fresh chance at governing.

But while inferences are easier to make based on actual data, what's more difficult to discern is what happened for numerous voters who were turned away or forced to file affidavit ballots because they weren't enrolled in a party or at least weren't enrolled in time for the primary they wanted to vote in.

Signature requirement is number equal to 15 % of registered voters in the municipality, based on the total number of registered voters at the time of the last general election

The «psychographic» picture Cambridge ostensibly provides to a campaign is the ability to tailor a specific message based on personality type — angry, fearful, optimistic and so forth — rather than simply aiming ads at voters from likely convivial candidates.

Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base, which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.

While it might be crass, (and reduce all us voters to mindless drones incapable of formulating an opinion based on issues) if we look at this race through the assumption that people tend to vote along ethnic lines, then the largest voting bloc in Queens i.e.the Rockaways and Jamaica will vote for City Councilman Leroy Comrie.

Lucas Almonte, legislative director for the CUNY University Student Senate said, «New York's paper - based voter registration system disadvantages young voters, particularly at a place like CUNY where many students do not have a DMV id.

This YouGov will announce its final #IndyRef prediction at 22:30, based on recontacting voters today after they voted

Automatic voter registration, approved in eight states and D.C., may also improve turnout via «two transformative, yet simple, changes,» the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan public policy institution based at New York University Law School, has written.

Reed said Cuomo's decision was a politically motivated action, aimed at appeasing his voter base, instead of land owners and farmers.

Democrats are looking at how many Republicans cross over to Tipirneni, while Republicans will be watching turnout among base voters.

«The governor has never liked spending money but the problem that the governor faces is how do you appeal to the base of the Democratic Party and voters at large without spending money?

Based on voter registration as of January 1, the new law would put that figure at about 15,000.

If the boundaries of such Election District have been created or changed since the last preceding General Election at which members of Assembly were elected then the above formula shall apply based on that percentage of the number of persons enrolled in the Party in such Election District on the list of enrolled voters last published by the Board of Elections which the total vote cast in the County for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election bore to the total Party enrollment in the County on the list of enrolled voters last published by the Board of Elections.

For instance, a campaign might aim cookie - targeted ads at its base voters or identified swing voters, while also running geotargeted Facebook Ads to hit particular demographics in the district and Google Ads on key search terms (the candidates» names, for instance).

At this point, it's all about GOTV and turning out the base, with each party making a last - minute push to get its voters to the polls.

Democrats and good - government groups, however, argued that a June primary gave overseas absentee voters more of a fair shot at getting their ballots in to the Board of Elections, based on the federal Move Act.

And political campaigns are based on taking a simple message and battering away at it (think: «fixing the roof when the sun is shining») until it's locked in the voter's shell - shocked brain.

Also at 11 a.m., members of 24 social justice and immigrants» rights groups, community - based organizations and good government groups call for improved voting systems and a more transparent Board of Elections in light voter roll purges that affected the presidential primary elections, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

There's also little desire among voters to see lawmakers receive a pay bump from their base $ 79,500, with opposition to the proposal registering at 55 percent to 42 percent (pay raises for lawmakers and cabinet officials is now before a panel that could decide on salary increases at the end of this year).

The problem with predicted outcomes of AV based on, for example, successive YouGov polls looking at voters preferences is that they really only tell us about short term effects on the relative position of the big established parties.

This can become burdensome in elections with many candidates and can lead to «donkey voting», in which some voters simply choose candidates at random or in top - to - bottom order, or a voter may order his or her preferred candidates and then fill in the remainder on a donkey basis.

Like most Sanders supporters — 36 percent of voters under the age of 30, according to a recent New York Times / CBS News poll — Teachout's natural support base isn't thrilled with the prospect of Clinton at the top of the ticket.

On Wednesday January 6, 2015 at a press briefing in Accra, the NDC General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia demanded the arrest and prosecution of Alhaji Dr.Mahamudu Bawumia, for allegedly falsifying information about the Togolese voters» register, as a basis to demand a replacement of Ghana?s electoral roll.

Books alleged he was prone to a volcanic temper, he was outperformed in the leaders» debates and his anger at an encounter with a moderately feisty but ultimately supportive Labour voter showed him to have lost the ability to persuade on a one - to - one basis.

If we include Ukip voters who are undecided about who to support in 2015 then this figure drops to less than 60 % — but the message is clear: Ukip will have a stronger base heading into 2015 than at any previous election.

Still, Mr. Sanders can win if the primary electorate expands from its normal, narrow base: if new voters, young people and those who normally only vote in a presidential general show up at the polls.

Mondello controls a small army of party faithful that are critical to collecting tens of thousands of petition signatures in the dead of summer, along with a loyal voter base in the Town of Hempstead that can dictate control of the county at large.

Some in the WFP, a union - controlled New York City - based party, even fear that with Cuomo at the top of their ticket, they won't get the 50,000 votes needed for legal recognition because of voter anger over the governor's refusal to support Mayor de Blasio's plan to tax high earners to fund universal pre-K.

A voter can request a registration application in person at the county board of election or any New York state agency - based voter registration center.

Peeling off significant sections of Akan voters enables the NDC to construct an identity - based coalition that is at once nationally representative in appearance and formidable as an election machine.

He must now convince voters, at least the Democrats that make up his political base, that he not only heard them, but followed through on his 2013 pledge to create a more equal city.

A recent study by Joan Y. Chiao, then at Northwestern University, a founder of the new field of cultural neuroscience, found that voters perceive male candidates as more competent and dominant than female ones, based on facial features alone.

Voters may put education at the top of their list of concerns, as poll after poll shows, but how that plays out based on last week's state elections is a tricky business.

The evidence from South Carolina shows that voters do at least sometimes evaluate school board members on the basis of student learning trends as measured by average school test scores.

Specifically at issue has been the revenue from local mill - levy overrides (MLO), voter - approved property - tax increases that supplement a district's base funding and support a wide variety of special projects.

Voters might be more inclined to support parcel taxes or raise general taxes to attract the next generation to teaching with a higher base pay and differentiated pay based on merit, however measured — at least this taxpayer would.

You can bet your bottom privatization dollar that as soon as these edu - tourists hear any reasonable, evidence - based rationale refuting their radical positions on teacher evaluation, tenure or the use of Value - Added Measures, they will inevitably blurt out the one magic incantation they believe will repel all attacks, confident in its power to tug at the heartstrings of any parent / voter: «But, it's all about the kids!»