Sentences with phrase «because more voters»

Wells suggests all this is happening because more voters are appearing at the ballot box who are not detected by opinion polls.

Not exact matches

Schwerin went on to say that adviser Minyon Moore had raised tough questions about the wisdom of making the speech because it could «unintentionally end up elevating questions that aren't yet being widely asked and introduce new damaging information, especially super predator, to a lot more voters.»

Because they aren't responsible for collecting the taxes for these payments, «a provincial government and its voters are incited to always demand more from the centre, shifting a large part of the costs to the taxpayers of other provinces,» argues Université du Québec economist Pierre Lemieux.

«Here's more background: I contributed $ 10,000 to Nimble America because I thought the organization had fresh ideas on how to communicate with young voters through the use of several billboards,» he continued.

In some years, because of their high voter turnout, they have made up more than 2 % of the electorate.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

Ballot counting in Zimbabe is more honest than in the United States, because the thugs counting the votes tell the voters that if they vote for the wrong party, their vote will not be counted.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

Plus, in the case of this year, human voters and some computers determined that Alabama was a better, more deserving team than Oklahoma State, but Oklahoma State gets the nod simply because they didn't have to play LSU in the regular season and Alabama did.

And every year, while voters still manage to mess certain things up, there's no argle bargle about which pitcher was worth more because he was on a contending team.

«Because Nov. 6 is a presidential election, we expect 4,000 more voters, based on voting patterns from the past.»

For example, BNP or UKIP voters would get to vote more than once because their second choice would be most likely to be taken into account first.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee and one of the principal architects of the GOP turnout apparatus nationwide, said a top - notch voter identification and turnout effort matters more in a congressional race than a presidential one because there is «much less of a public dialogue» about individual House contests.

This is important to them because Democrat voters have traditionally been more likely to find requests for identification difficult to fill.

Demagogic policies, How many times we have seen politicians saying things like «the wealthy are guilty of the people poverty», or talking about the 2013 US fiscal Cliff agreement «the wealthy have to pay more taxes to finance the people health services», for me those are populist and demagogic tactics to gain more voters, because they know that the democracy is controlled by the mob.

Because all of the candidates can take part more voters visit and can ask questions which the candidates can answer publicly.

But that's only because they're spending their time much more effectively - and usefully for the voter - by listening to their constituents» concerns.

Voters are more likely to support democracy and accept the outcome of democratic elections — which is important if electoral violence is to be avoided — if they trust that people like them will not be excluded from political and economic opportunities just because their candidate lost.

Second, PO and United Left were defeated because they were more preoccupied with their internal squabbles than with concerns of the voters.

Brexit is in some respects an even more potent issue for them because it brings together a wider group of the electorate, with pro-EU Conservatives and Labour voters wondering how to reverse the march towards the cliff's edge.

Moreover, because the cost of advertising is mainly a function of market size, it does not cost more to reach 10,000 voters in Wyoming than it does to reach 10,000 voters in a neighborhood in Queens or Los Angeles.

The Green MP told Politics.co.uk part of the reason her party had been unable to match Ukip's performance was because journalists had failed to present disgruntled voters with a «more positive option» than Ukip.

On a more positive note, it is also possible that there could be something of a «reverse Bradley effect», whereby normally Republican voters don't admit in polls that they will vote for a Black Democrat... but then do because they can't stand McCain.

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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.

The challenge for Labour is that most splitting occurs between ideologically adjacent parties, and because less partisan Labour voters are more likely than Conservatives to split their vote.

It's partly because Republicans created boundaries efficiently in redistricting and partly because the most Democratic districts in the country, like those in urban portions of New York or Chicago, are even more Democratic than the reddest districts of the country are Republican, meaning there are fewer Democratic voters remaining to distribute to swing districts.

But because the measure is a constitutional amendment, Florida law required that it get 60 percent of the vote — and that made it all the more challenging in a midterm election year, when turnout among younger voters is lower.

Rodriguez, a 32 - year old Marine veteran, quit his job as coordinator of Veterans and Military Affairs at Medaille College to launch what some consider a quixotic run for mayor in November because Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in the city by more than seven to one.

They may be relatively unconcerned about upsetting their more right wing voters because they will be more focused on winning back their more left wing former voters.

However, my colleague expressed his suspicion that certain politicians do not want the turnout to be higher, because that would mean that their percentage of the vote would go down as the voters that do not show now are more inclined to vote for their rivals.

The reported comments come amid allegations Crosby sidelined a Sikh aide because he promoted the idea of making Tories more appealing to ethnic minority voters.

«The voters electing their leaders will be more reflective of the city's racial and ethnic makeup because older, whiter and wealthier voters are more dominant in the old - fashioned, delayed runoffs.»

This time it will be much more difficult for voters to reprove any one particular party because the agent responsible for recalling them to the ballot box is the Australian Electoral Commission.

That was because their efforts to control the grassroots were based on a misconception of local parties and members, who were seen as dangerous radicals who would thwart the modernisers» ambition to make the party more responsive to more moderate voters.

Several voters at the same polling place said they cast their ballots for de Blasio because they felt he was more in touch with the public and would steer the city in a better direction.

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In Dumfries and Galloway, which had 106,000 - odd voters, the total number of «Yes» votes was... 36,000... And I don't hear any more, because of the mayhem.

Even so, the economy determined both elections: in 1992, because voters were scared of the taxes they would have to pay under Labour; in 1997, because the Conservatives never recovered from the humiliation of the pound crashing out of Europe's exchange rate mechanism on Black Wednesday more than four years earlier.

The special voting exercise ended yesterday [Sunday] amidst more reports of registered voters, mostly security personnel, being turned away because their names were missing from the special voting registers in their constituencies nationwide.

Traditionally strong tactical voters because of the sheer number of seats where their candidate couldn't win, the «yellow surge» means more Lib Dems may now believe their candidate has a chance after all.

He said that many of the more than 400 uncounted signatures were rejected because the BOE's records for voters have not been updated, especially for voters affected by Hurricane Sandy.

In this article, Carl Cullinane explains how, because of the UK's First Past The Post electoral system, some voters come to wield far more influence than others.

The April 19 date, further, would seem to favor Republicans because the party's presidential primary is more likely to be fluid (and therefore draw out voters) than the Democrats.

«Latinos who are able to vote need to come out and represent our community at the polls because for every Latino voter there are many more Latinos, like me, who are not able to make our voices heard at the ballot box,» Cruz added.

Rodriguez, a 32 - year old Marine veteran quit his job as coordinator of Veterans and Military Affairs at Medaille College to launch what some consider a Quixotic run for mayor in November because Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in the city by a more than seven to one.

Purnell said that Labour should be more honest about the looming cuts because voters knew the choice would be between Tory cuts and Labour cuts.

It was mentally insane to keep her as leader that after she lost 63 seats and even more so now as she not only had minimal gains this time but she's probably going to lose seats again next time because you won't have African American and Latino voters coming out to vote in such large numbers which was Obama true assets, racial identity politics (not criticizing it, just saying he did it well).