Sentences with phrase «better than the voters»

«So your position is, a decision was made very early on before voters had a say, and that's fine because the DCCC knows better than the voters of the 6th Congressional District, and we should line up behind that candidate,» asked Tillemann during the conversation.

«Facebook allowed them to combine different data sources in a way that allowed them to understand voters maybe better than voters themselves did,» says Dietram Scheufele, science communication professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Not exact matches

That means there is an incentive to keep expectations low, and to look for scapegoats, just in case voters are feeling no better in 2019 than they were in 2015.

In saying that the government stands with «consumers» — rather than citizens or voters or, God forbid, shareholders — Clement diminishes the federal government's importance, making it nothing more than the complaints desk at the Better Business Bureau.

The real estate mogul has cannily understood that despite polling that indicates most Americans see free trade as more of an opportunity than a threat, a large and motivated minority of voters have been yearning for a politician to call into question whether the trade deals we have on the books are good for American workers.

That's all to the good; I don't think it's an accident that the first wide - open Best Picture race in decades coincides with the fact that a quarter of voting members have joined since 2014, and that a far lower percentage of them are straight, white male American elders than is the case with the other 75 percent of voters.

The Green Party has nominated Environmental Economics and Policy student Andrew Fehr, who faces the challenge of convincing Green - leaning voters that actually voting for a Green Party is a better choice than a strategic vote for Ms. Duncan.

Given that a Democrat occupied the Oval Office between 2008 - 2016, and given that the economic condition of 90 % of all households declined during that period, it follows logically that empty promises of a Republican sounded better to the general population of voters than the empty promises of a Democrat.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

In Iowa, Romney did slightly better among the 47 % of the voters who stressed the ability to beat Obama (31 %) or having the right experience (16 %) than did Santorum among the 49 % of the voters who emphasized «true conservatism» (25 %) or «strong moral character» (24 %).

Two out of five voters don't think Trump or Clinton would be a good president; half say they're voting against a candidate rather than in support of one.

But he still did better among these voters than among those who seldom or never attend services.

But Republican primary and caucus voters have shown much better judgment than you would think given the....

But Republican primary and caucus voters have shown much better judgment than you would think given the silly season polls of 2011.

Despite a slogan («Make America Great Again») that targeted oldster nostalgia and irritated young nonwhites whose ancestors were either in some other country or barred from voting in this one when America was allegedly great — and despite his stranger - than - fiction gaffes and scandals, Trump did almost exactly as well as Romney had among young voters.

Well he doesn't have to «do» anything other than be a few shades darker than the average Alabama voter to be considered a muslim.

In general, Democratic voters seem less concerned with a candidate's faith life, though more who believed Clinton was religious were likely to think she would also be a good president (69 %) than those who didn't believe she was religious but would make a good leader (54 %).

«For example, the gap among voting blocs that gave a B or better to the Republicans versus the Democrats was greater among white evangelicals than all other religious groups and all voters, as reported in these data,» he wrote.

The awareness of the predicament (on the part of both the politicians at the microphones and the voters in the streets) conceivably could lead to a reconstitution of the American idea, but the finding of the phoenix in the ashes presupposes a debate rising from an intellectual structure a good deal sturdier than the one lost in the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

Another oddity is that Bush did better (58 - 40) among voters attending mainline / oldline Protestant churches (e.g., American Baptist, Presbyterian Church USA, ELCA Lutheran, United Methodist) than among the born - again.

Nice try on the Obama thing... except those same exit polls from»08 clearly showed that Obama did far better than McCain with the more educated voters.

This story does Romney more harm than good — his religious affiliation should not be in the forefront — voters might feel less inclined to vote for him.

Voters like Zach Lowe of ESPN and Ben Golliver of SI.com are voting for Simmons because he has had a better season than Mitchell.

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.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, I find that (1) it is better to lose later in the season than earlier, (2) AP voters do not pay attention to the strength of a defeated opponent, and (3) the benefit of winning by a large margin is negligible.

The truth is that oddsmakers actually watch far more football than the average Associated Press voter and have a much better gauge on the talent of each team.

Maybe he'll do better than this year because of the voters who simply won't vote for anybody except IMMORTALS (like Maddux) in their first year of eligibility.

Apparently that was enough to convince voters that the Nittany Lions are still better than USC.

Baseball players have been exhibiting monumental deficiencies of integrity and character for well more than a century, and it's just now that Hall of Fame voters are going to take those words seriously?

Although all of the Oak Lawn votes had not yet been counted late Wednesday, voters there were rejecting the measure by better than a 2 - 1 ratio, stunning Park District officials who had seen them overwhelmingly approve an advisory referendum on the matter in November 2004.

More than 7 in 10 voters and parents in Kentucky say that meals would be substantially better if schools offered a greater variety of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

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.

Ergo, since voters don't always know what's good for them, this gives rise to the category of moral wrongdoing called populism, in which politicians give voters what they want, rather than giving voters what they would want if they were better informed and / or better at processing the relevant kind (s) of information.

«After his lopsided victory in the Republican primary, Paladino is now better known by New York voters — but not necessarily better liked, other than by Republican and conservative voters,» said Siena pollster Steve Greenberg.

This may well still happen, but with less than three months to go until voters go to the polls there remains zero evidence of it.

A study of voters» social values provides a better indicator of how they voted than their political attitudes based on a left - right split.

These systems of knowledge about the function of parliament seem to be better informed than attending to the minutae of either side of the house, neither of which represents the economic interests in work of the majority of voters.

«Rather than rumor mongering, Team Turner might better spend their time explaining their evolving positions on raising taxes and the 2nd amendment for Republican primary voters,» Catalfamo said in response to my question about whether change was afoot in the Long campaign.

Especially given the complexities inherent in the world today (and therefore the depth of detail, legal obscurities, and the like represented in actual legislation), the ordinary voter in a democracy may find his or her time better spent on other activities than doing enough research in order to form an opinion on each potential piece of legislation.

As for the last paragraph, VVD scores about the same domestically and internationally but D66, with similar policies (perhaps more migrant - friendly but otherwise I'm not sure how they differ), but with almost exclusively university - educated voters, scores far better internationally than domestically.

That was better than the marks voters gave the Republican - led Senate and Democratic - controlled Assembly.

Wouldn't David Cameron have been better not to pretend that Cornwall — rather than Turkey — was the real summer holiday and rather reassure voters that the Tories under him willnot revert to policies that entrench, nay, widen the income gap?

The same poll found that NYC voters approve 56 - 37 percent of the job Cuomo is doing, and say 58 - 22 percent that he would be better for the city than Cynthia Nixon.

On key issues — fighting corruption, combating heroin abuse, controlling taxes, health care, education and job creation — voters in majority or plurality margins believe Akshar would better deal with them than Fiala.

And though it's been viewed many fewer times than Yes We Can, in this case it was particularly well targeted, since the voter in question is my sister - in - law, a Linux expert at IBM in Austin.

Philip Hammond had been in the job for more than a year but our focus groups told us that few voters recognised him - and almost half of those polled immediately after the budget said they actually didn't know if he was doing a good job or not (almost 2/3 didn't know whether shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, would be any better either).

The classic political conundrum exists here: the easiest way to stop a voter from supporting you is to make them poorer than they were under the previous administration, while the best way to gain a vote is to make someone richer.

Although no electoral system is perfect, and the UK's First Past the Post method is worse than most, parliamentary elections are a better expression of democracy because unlike a referendum, there is no clear agenda setter: the agenda is contested between parties and candidates, the media, and, increasingly, via the internet, the voters themselves.

A recent YouGov poll found 49 % of voters thought Theresa May would make a better prime minister than Corbyn.

Female voters who flocked to a casino caucus site Saturday morning said they liked Sanders but ultimately sided with Clinton, in part because they believed she would understand their issues better than Sanders.