Sentences with phrase «average voter»

Our current system undermines the very essence of democracy and advantages big money donors over the needs of average voters.

The problem is that the rules of the game are stacked against average voters and the house always wins.

This will have an appeal that goes beyond average voters.

A Clinton aide said the plan was a «a key plank of Clinton's plan to challenge the stranglehold that wealthy interests have over our political system» and would allow «Americans to establish common sense rules to protect against the undue influence of billionaires and special interests and to restore the role of average voters in elections.»

For average voters to have the chance to elect the positions separately, the state would need to find a slate of Electors pledged to a cross-party pair (e.g., Romney - Biden) and put it on the ballot.

Average voter turnout in the weekend's European Parliament...

While average voters don't follow the minutiae of legislative tactics and procedures they do tend to bristle at the idea of things going on behind closed doors; anything that feels like an end run around the «way things should be done» tends to be politically treacherous.

On average voters place the leader of the Liberal Democrats exactly in the centre.

Perez, who lost last year's state controller race to fellow Democrat Betty Yee, doesn't have major statewide name ID with average voters.

Trudeau himself has his share of such nickel - and - dime proposals — adjusting repayment of university loans based on post-graduation incomes, and a registered savings plan for workers interested in upgrading their skills — but more often his strategy involves articulating how national economic issues affect average voters.

Look at almost any metric, and traditional forms of democratic engagement appear to be in terminal decline: Electoral turnout, party membership, average voter age — take your pick.

In the chancellor's first spending review, average voters suffered a cut of 12 % — # 1,850 each.

Average voter turnout in the weekend's European Parliament (EP) elections was an estimated 43.09 %.

If you accept that the average voter isn't going to get into the detail, they did well from the messaging: balanced budget, kept the contingency, increased tax breaks, Canada is the envy of the world from a fiscal security standpoint, etc..

That doesn't mean the average voter has the same view,» said Andres Jaime, global FX and rates strategist at Barclays.

Most people would prefer not to pay for future bailouts to Too Big To Fail banks and the average voter is likely open to the idea that many business subsidies are more about insider influence than the common good.

The 10 - vote limit was a hindrance for many, to the point the BBWAA voted to increase it to 12 in the future, but the average voter used just 8.4 spots on their ballot: there are still a whole lot of voters out there who don't see an obvious backlog even as it repeatedly hits them over the head.

We're just proud as hell to be one of the first to provide this information in a way that actually allows the average voter to sort of «meet» their candidates and hear them give their take on actual questions about issues relevant to them — especially since these days, people get more and more of their information online.

It's just rare for the average voter to look at a candidate's actual voting record while they will happily listen to whatever that candidate says.

While we all like to joke about how dumb the average voter is, the fact is that most humans aren't that dumb.

Every time we pass an end - of - quarter date, and every time these articles reach fever pitch about the Dems» massive and over-the-top email fundraising operations, the more it erodes the average voter's trust in the larger Democratic Brand.

I doubt the average voter even knows the advantages and / or disadvantages between the two systems.

Sunny, the term «left or right» means very little to the average voter, in fact most political ideologies have some shared similarities.

Sometimes, you get lucky and generate interest in your race outside your district; remember to think about not just your average voter, but your average donor and volunteer too.

So 2018 will probably depend on how many of the promises Trump made during his campaign are delivered, and whether they have a positive or negative affect on the average voter.

How connected is the average voter in your city, county, or district?

For this reason, according to our surveys, the average voter regards such elections as procedurally unfair.

The PM remains struck that his own children will compete with kids from the other side of the world for places at university, for jobs, but many inside the No 10 machine have been tortured by the fear that «global race» doesn't mean much to the average voter.

Eldridge notes that New York's antiquated campaign finance system is built for big donors, not average voters.

The average voter, if aware of Hawkins» bid at all, probably regards his previous two bids as failures.

«It doesn't directly say I'm a racist but for the average voter, it implies that I'm a racist which is the furthest, furthest from the truth,» he said.

She also leveled criticisms against the governor's economic and fiscal policies, and emphasized the importance of reforming campaign finance to raise the voices of average voters.

Saving the highest earners thousands while the average voter endures biting austerity is as blatant a corroboration of that suspicion as Osborne could provide.

What is the average voter turnout among Democrats in U.S. midterm elections?

The average voter would be hard - pressed to identify who is behind many of the advertisements and mailers financed by third - party groups.

Bhutto's death, with all its admittedly much larger implications, may just be a blip in the attention span of the average voter.

«To the average voter this is inside politics.

The average voter would find it difficult to identify a distinctive UKIP issue which has not been adopted by May and the Conservatives already.

Varying the voting system creates confusion and a lack of certainty for the average voter.

The main problem for Giuliani is that the average voter who elected him mayor in 1993 and 1997 is very different than the average voter who will pick the Republican nominee in 2008.

If you asked the average voter whether the rich paid their fair share of tax they'd probably say no.

«I don't think it's any surprise to the average voter that a major industry like this tries to influence government in support of its interests.»

The whole debate about Leveson — from the philosophical principles right down to the minutiae of how each amendment is drafted — is not something that the average voter will get worked up about.

There's evidence he's waking up the average voter.»