Sentences with phrase «away from voters»

In Thurman, the town supervisor and three of the board members have taken it upon themselves to ignore the majority and take our right to vote on some important issues away from us voters.

In that situation these plans would add layers of process and confusion to legislating and lead to back room deals being made far away from the voters eyes.

Dare Thompson, president of the New York state League of Women Voters, said the organization opposes term limits, which she said «takes power away from voters.»

It takes power away from the voters.

Established media, state radio and tv and the political class had only a walk - on role in forcing the referendum which they collectively opposed: it was the victory by UKIP in a national election (the 2014) European Elections), social media, youtube and the spreading of the message even when it was kept away from the voters by the elite that did the job.

Schreibman, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Senior Assistant District Attorney for Ulster County, said he discovered shortly after campaigning that the need for multimillion - dollar fundraisers turned him away from voters.

Not exact matches

After attributing their presidential loss in 2000 in part to the assault weapons ban, Democrats shied away from gun control talk in order to avoid alienating rural voters, particularly blue collar white males.

A former publicist, DuVernay never shied away from the issue, tweeting to her 600,000 - plus followers that «shame is a helluva motivator» after the Academy tweaked its membership rules to bring in more minority voters.

GOP political advisors think the issue could push voters away from the GOP agenda and give Democrats a big boost in the midterms.

The voter ID pilot has descended into chaos during the local elections as constituents have been turned away from their polling stations.

-- «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.»

This leaves the independent voters, whom polls suggest have turned away from the president.

Constantly concerned about alienating the southern wing of the Democratic Party, the Kennedys sought to channel the movement away from attacks on state segregation statutes, which, they claimed, were local conflicts in which federal authorities were powerless to intervene, and into voter registration efforts in which the national state could be of assistance.

Testing the long - standing coalition between candidates, black pastors, and the congregations, the 14 Black Republican Candidates in the midterms could peel some black voters away from the Democratic Party.

Others in the progressive faith worlds, meanwhile, say Democrats - including President Barack Obama - have shied away from the faith - based messaging that they honed in the years after the 2004 election, which was seen to be determined by so - called values voters.

We employ them on our opponents, hoping to persuade voters to turn away from such dangerous ideologues.

In fact the invasion served a variety of U.S. purposes including the assertion of U.S. control over the Panama Canal, the diversion of attention away from El Salvador, the economic destabilization of Nicaragua and the intimidation of Nicaraguan voters prior to the election.

The voters should just say to all conservative cultist (Christian evangelical, Mormons, etc, «Please back away from the thermonuclear weapons.»

«Religious» voters can stay the hell away from anything resembling a ballot, if you please...!

Only one church has ever had its tax - exempt status revoked: a New York church that ran full - page newspaper ads warning voters away from Bill Clinton in 1992.

With a few lines of coded racism and a string of angry tweets, the president of the United States got the bulk of the 37 percent or so of voters who still support him to do just that — to walk away from the NFL.

Technically, Davis is listed at PF, so he wouldn't steal votes away from Embiid at C unless the voters really want to just say he's a C. Second team All - NBA Defense for Embiid is fair, but the first team center is Drummond if you scroll up to a previous comment reply.

I would suggest staying away from this award because there are many different factors that the voters will be considering.

Will voters shy away from handing this prestigious award to a Freshman?

Also, as Michael Felger pointed out on the Felger and Mazz radio program, many voters may be a little sick of the Patriots and shy away from voting for Brady if they feel the race is close.

Though you may feel voters could shy away from him due to his personal history, you may recall that Michael Vick won this award back in 2010.

And we need to stop engaging in a narrative that blames voters for Tory failures in managing our economy and for ideological budget cuts that have stretched our public services to breaking point.The left are good at diagnosing problems, but too often we shy away from pitching solutions.

As you might recall, Crowley was less than forthcoming earlier this week when asked by reporters about Lancman's claim the party is trying to siphon Jewish voters away from him by running Gottlieb — a late add to the NY - 6 field who has well - documented (thanks to Chris Bragg) ties to Meng and also (oddly) certain elements of the Queens GOP.

Besides this fear of crossover voters «stealing» the primary away from people who actually are in the party, one bonus purported from here is that a closed primary tends to let candidates talk more openly about their views during the primary since they are largely just speaking to their base.

But voters in New York, more than four years away from the next presidential election, prefer former Sen. and soon - to - be-former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton make another run in 2016 over Cuomo.

Bloated, vaguely formed, self - righteous groups that operate in a shadow sub-political world away from direct scrutiny by the voter.

MySpace can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly if you're trying to reach younger voters who have moved away from the casual use of email, but most advice I've seen about using social network sites for political advocacy stresses the importance of moving MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

However, I predict that Labour's unwillingness to engage with a left - wing Euroscepticism could lead to the alienation of the roughly one - quarter to one - third of Labour voters who oppose British EU membership, leading many of them to turn away from the party at the next general election.

His argument is that left - leaning Scottish voters who moved away from the slums of Glasgow to the new towns of Scotland dropped their political allegiance in the process.

«Also the kind of voters he appeals to — white, working - class, many Catholic voters, not college educated — are just the voters Mitt Romney must have to try to pull the election away from Barack Obama.

This process takes time: you'll need to take the photos, prepare the «memes» and other images, write the status updates, edit the videos, etc., all of which takes staff or volunteers away from other tasks like raising money or talking with voters.

Nigel Farage has managed to woo voters away from both parties.

Voters no longer need to rely on elected officials with bully pulpits to inform thier vote, they are just clicks away from a research and entering their own political discussions.

In fact he moved further away from the electorate and voters rewarded him for it.

«Representative Faso is failing the people that he was elected to represent and voters deserve to know about his record in Washington, especially his vote to take away health care from New York families,» said DCCC spokesman Evan Lukaske.

Play away from home, and you risk the wrath of more than four in ten voters (see graph F).

She has repeatedly said the Jomoro seat she once occupied was whisked away from her hands by bloating the voters register.

«Since the early 2000s, state voters have drifted away from the feckless GOP in droves.

An ad that never ran got plenty of media coverage and took attention away from the issues on which the group wanted to focus voters (though all the attention also boosted the group's membership, so it wasn't exactly a total loss).

But we can not forget that these issues will be a million miles away from the concerns of most voters at the next election.

Mr. Sharpe sued Mr. Parker for $ 10 million, saying he was damaged by a newspaper story in which the senator was quoted as saying that Mr. Sharpe had entered the race at Mr. Dear's behest with the aim of drawing black voters away from Mr. Parker.

But in recent months, he has been backing away from the idea, saying he has reservations about it — particularly about the way delegates would be selected, should voters approve a convention.

A little behind - the - scenes database work can put a negative message in front of a carefully chosen group, keeping it away from other voters who might be offended by the its tone and also saving the campaign money.

She also explained that while Nick Clegg took a risk with his reputation in participating in the debates, his initiative for the debates could be explained by the Liberal Democrat's need to appeal to traditional Liberal Democrat voters, who tend to be more pro-European; and many of those voters turned away from the Liberal Democrats when the party entered coalition in 2010.