Sentences with phrase «base voters in each state»

First, swing states are determined by whether or not there are roughly equal numbers of Democratic or Republican base voters in each state.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON — President Trump's major policy moves over the course of his first year in office have had a common denominator: They either overtly favor his base of support — the roughly one - third of voters who solidly back him — or they appear to penalize those states that vote Democratic.

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.

While Mr. Trump's stand is likely to give him a boost in industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, which were both key to his 2016 victory, a trade war may harm other manufacturing strongholds that are home to his base voters.

Absent a major terrorist attack in the United States, or a spate of smaller domestic attacks, or escalating weekly American military casualties, my suspicion is that in the 2016 election, voters will weigh foreign policy based on their feelings about the economy.

The Associated Press unveiled a new project to supplant traditional exit polling — beginning with the 2018 midterm elections — by combining traditional, probability - based polling with an online, opt - in survey of voters in targeted states.

Cookie - based voter - file targeted ads (like those getting scarce in battleground states) aren't the only arrow in the digital advertiser's quiver: Mitt Romney's now trying to connect with voters via Pandora internet radio, too.

But it could help Senate candidates in battleground states target both base and independent voters, who polling shows overwhelmingly favor expanded background checks.

Paladino was here last week for a rally that, if anything, highlighted the struggles within the conservative voter base over the measure, even if polls show most New Yorkers are in favor of updating the state's assault weapons ban.

Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, who sits on the Assembly's Election Law Committee, said Trump's comments are discouraging in light of the fact that there are federal courts across the country with judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats saying that states» voter laws are unconstitutional because they target people based on their race and ethnicity.

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.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

Mike Leavitt, an Annapolis - based Republican consultant who helped guide Hogan's successful campaign, said winning again «will be a very uphill battle» in a state where voters are registered Democrat, 2 - 1.

Hillary Clinton could get burned by Wisconsin voters in today's Democratic primary, based on the latest polls, so the former secretary of state has set her focus on the upcoming battleground of New York.

This information is based on voter enrollment data released by New York State in November of 2017 https://www.elections.ny.gov/EnrollmentSD.html

Rising newspapers in Westchester endorses Mayer based on her experience and knowledge of state government, her proven ability to deliver for Yonkers in the Assembly, and her unique capacity to represent and earn the respect from a large cross-section of Westchester voters from all parties.

«And I think that the voters of the entire state would be better off served if they heard more policy - based arguments and discussion in the debates.»

The resulting lawsuit made it to the Court of Appeals, where the final decision determined that while Espada's enrollment could not be challenged based on his legislative record, the party's county chair did indeed have the power, as described in state election law, to «determine that the voter is not in sympathy with the principles of such party.»

And here's a very cool map based on Nate Silver of Five ThirtyEight.com's data on when a gay marriage ban would be defeated by voters in a given state.

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.

Valesky and two other senators scored 28 out of 100 on their actions on environmental matters, according to the annual ranking of the state Senate by the Albany - based EPL / Environmental Advocates in its annual voter's guide.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

When Democratic voters in the 39th state Assembly District head to the polls Sept. 14, former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate asks that they vote based on what he has done in the state Legislature, not the scandals of the past two years.

Maine voters have a chance to say «yes» to an investment in our state that will create quality jobs, foster innovation and help the state transition to a knowledge - based economy.

In a report to the Legislature on school facilities, the LAO recommends that instead of relying on voter - approved bonds to help pay for construction and upkeep, the state should create a grant program that awards funds based on student attendance and district need.

The court ruled that the cuts the state is making are not affecting the base funding per student and that the language voters approved in the amendment does not prevent cuts from total education funding.

A less sunny view is based on elections results in «blue» Massachusetts and «red» Georgia, where voters in both states soundly rejected pro-school choice ballot initiatives.

Arizona voters passed a citizen initiative in 2000 to fund teacher performance based compensation from an increase in the state sales tax.

The $ 152.4 million in bonds will partially go to two of the best schools in the state — BASIS Scottsdale and BASIS Tucson North — after BASIS officials said they needed the money given they don't have the power to ask voters for bonds backed by property taxes.

Based in Iowa, one of the worst states for puppy mills, Iowa Voters for Companion Animals and its sister organization, Iowa Friends of Companion Animals, works to educate people about puppy mill cruelty and enacts laws that will help protect animals from abuse and neglect.

One awful example of this has been the relentless effort by LA - based Mercury Insurance, as well as other big companies like State Farm, to undermine the most effective (actually, the only real) insurance regulatory law in the nation, known as «Prop. 103,» passed by voter initiative in 1988.

Targeted adverts based on our data insights were heavily tested, then deployed to the most persuadable voters in key battleground states.

The world's largest social media network is facing government scrutiny in Europe and the United States about a whistleblower's allegations that London - based consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed user information to build profiles on American voters that were later used to help elect US President Donald Trump in 2016.

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.