Sentences with phrase «by voter interest»

Ultimately, «voter turnout is most impacted by voter interest, voter engagement and candidates that people care about.»

Not exact matches

While the money is modest compared with that donated by fossil fuel interests, the support provides GOP candidates with added credibility on clean energy, an issue polling shows swing voters care about.

There are some interests, said the court, that are held by everyone resident in a place, «regardless of whether they qualify as voters.»

Higher interest rates will triple the interest on the federal debt to $ 830 billion annually by 2026, will hurt workers and young voters, and could bankrupt over 20 % of US corporations, according to the IMF.

South Dakota voters approved a ballot initiative in 2016 by a 75 percent vote to cap rates for payday, car title and installment loans at 36 percent annual interest.

Activists working with immigrant voters say a «climate of fear» — stoked by rising deportation arrests and the failure of Congress and Trump to strike a deal on DACA — is stirring greater interest in their voter outreach efforts for the upcoming midterms.

The Democrats» present failure stems from their presumption that on economic issues they win by default, that non-wealthy voters know their own material interests» those historically opposed or left unaddressed by Republicans» and do not require instruction or reminding as to which party is on their side.

Voters who place cultural or moral concerns above economic self - interest are obviously beset by a form of false consciousness (Frank never uses the term, but his analysis presupposes it).

Noted by MGoBlog, Josh Kendall, a writer for «The State» in Columbia, South Carolina and AP voter, has an interesting...

Noted by MGoBlog, Josh Kendall, a writer for «The State» in Columbia, South Carolina and AP voter, has an interesting take on where the Wolverines should be ranked.

To be a candidate, interested persons must file nominating petitions signed by 125 qualified voters who are residents of the Arlington Heights Park District.

By contrast, campaigns that let the various pieces exist in isolation will likely waste resources and miss opportunities to turn voters» passing interest into support — and money.

Condi was supported by others earlier as being a shock and awe VP choice.It won't happen.She has expressed no interest in being a public candidate, and likely would be very bad at it.In many ways, she is a delicate flower; and would not easily survive in the political garden of vipers.And what would she add to the GOP ticket?A slight tick up for black voters?

«Clearly this was a preemptive strike by the Democrat Bosses, as they aim to distract voters from Andrew Cuomo's massive special interest war chest,» LaValle continued.

Some analysts have provided interesting evidence to suggest that online polls could be significantly overstating support for Leave through the way they handle undecided voters and by failing to represent more socially liberal voters who are harder to reach.

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

«President Clinton will highlight the choice voters face in the upcoming midterm elections, and emphasize the need to continue moving the country forward by electing strong Representatives like Hinchey who are fighting for middle class families — not the wealthy special interests.»

«Imagine, for example, tailored advertisements created for individual «swing voters» (selected automatically through profiling), pointing out a party's positive steps in the policy areas that are most likely to interest them (also selected automatically), omitting those areas where party policy doesn't fit, and couching it in a language appropriate to the individual's ethnic, educational, cultural and linguistic background, illustrated with a few appropriate news TV clips, and playing background music exactly to the individual's taste and voiced over by an actor that profiling reveals that individual likes?

Founded to represent the material interests of the majority at a time when politics was entirely dominated by a wealthy minority, it's still the party best placed to deliver the future most voters desire.

Here's an interesting approach to contacting voters by email, via Charles Lenchner of DemocracyInAction, who thought of it while doing volunteer work for a city council candidate in NYC.

Now, the idea of representative democracy and state legislatures is that state representatives and state senators are chosen by local voters to represent their interest and generally funded by local interests or, in some cases, state party interests.

The September 2015 letter is downloadable here and was signed by: Citizen Action, Citizens Budget Commission, Citizens Union, Good Jobs New York, League of Women Voters of NY State, New York Public Interest Research Group, and Reinvent Albany.

[19] During the investigation, the Commissioner accepted that Thornberry's primary motive was to act in the public interest by supporting the Electoral Commission's campaign to improve response rates, and consequently levels of voter registration.

The interesting angle from our point of view was the part — reported early by Yahoo News — that urges the party to create a data infrastructure to power the kind of voter targeting at which the Obama campaign (among others) has excelled.

The address and interview with WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock was co-sponsored by four good - government groups: Citizens Union, Common Cause New York, the League of Women Voters and the New York Public Interest Research Group.

But he credits his renewed interest to a reinvigorated national conversation about voter enfranchisement and issues in New York, both highlighted by the Sanders campaign.

Ironic when LI legislators fund their corrupt campaign with dirty money from NYC real estate interests, NYC Cheater school interests, and NYC LLC corporations while at the same time trying to convince upstate voters about the dangers of being dominated by DeBlasio and NYC!

«New York ranks consistently as one of the nation's worst in terms of voter participation, driven by state laws that create obstacles to voting,» said Megan Ahearn, program director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, «Much of the rest of the nation has developed practices that improve voter turnout.

Also, I've found it interesting since 2000 that if you look at a map of the presidential elections by county or House district, there's a clear blue belt across the middles of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia — presumably where the most black voters live.

Gloria De Piero MP, Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, responding to the lifting of Lord Rennard's suspension, said: «Nick Clegg has sent a clear message to women voters — he is more interested in trying to salvage the Lib Dems» fading election hopes than do the right thing by the women who made these serious complaints.

There is a concerted effort by a wide range of interests to get New York voters to approve Proposition Three on the November ballot two weeks from now.

: «Voters in senate district 40 are sick of corrupt, pay - to - play politicians like Jose Felix Diaz who are owned by the special interests that buy them.

But by leaping in to defend public workers, the president risks alienating swing voters in those states and nationwide who are sympathetic to GOP governors perceived as taking on special interests to cut spending.

Those include interest payments on bonds for school construction and renovation projects approved by voters.

As a moderate independent the GOP could grab my attention by making the neutralizing of special interests a top priority with publicly financed elections, non-partisan redistricting, universal voter registration, open primaries, etc..

-- Johanna Cervone, spokeswoman for the Florida Democratic Party: «Voters in senate district 40 are sick of corrupt, pay - to - play politicians like Jose Felix Diaz who are owned by the special interests that buy them.

Could Eddie Cox have a strategy here... throw the Governor race by running Krazy Karl's angry grandad so voter interest goes down giving him the best chance to hold on to enough Senate seats they can buy off fake Democrats and maintain their corrupt majority?

It is true his reforms have been thwarted by vested interests, but the idea that voters will continue to reward them the status of an anti-mainstream party is simply unrealistic.

While we continue that discussion in chat, you still haven't answered the question I asked about your question: are you only interested in the correlation between views of individual Republican voters and their racial attitudes, or are you also interested in whether the views espoused by the Republican Party itself were formed by race?

Term limits empower the little guy — the voter — by reducing the grip of special interests on legislators.»

The aim is to cut the number of MPs from 650 to 600 by 2015 - a radical proposal that has not yet ignited the interest of the public but which will have major implications for the UK's political landscape — and for voters.

«The onslaught of IE spending was fortunately somewhat offset by the City's matching fund system, which empowers voters to make their voice heard over special interest spending.

But a last - minute ad campaign by labor unions and other interest groups ultimately dissuaded voters for voting «yes» on the ballot question.

Astoria Democrat Jeremiah Frei - Pearson said he has fought powerful interests and gotten results for the residents of his neighborhood and plans to do the same if chosen by voters as the replacement for state Assemblyman Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria) this fall.

«This selfless act of releasing her supporters provides voters with the opportunity to unite around a candidate who shares Republican principles and will serve the interests of his constituents in Congress by standing in opposition to the liberal policies of President Obama and Speaker Pelosi,» Steele said in a statement released by the Republican National Committee.

«Independent expenditures unfairly color the campaign process by dominating the conversation with the point of view of a particular interest... First and foremost, voters need to know who is sponsoring the advertising they receive,» Lerner said.

One question among many, in front of an audience with many other concerns, the candidates touched on it briefly and moved on, driven by the need to talk about other things and connect on other issues interesting voters.

Tory Defectors in seats we are defending against the Lib Dems have doubts about the party's competence, clarity and values — whereas UKIP voters really are for «none of the above», disliking all three parties, and being interested only in immigration, Europe and defence — though as I found in my previous research, most of those who are attracted to UKIP are not motivated by policy issues at all.

The eight specific issues under the purview of the Commission include organizational and operational planning within INEC; Transparency and making information of public interest available and accessible; Biometric identification of voters; Voter education, Voter Register and the enrolment of new registrants; and the issue of exclusion of aspirants by political parties on the basis of wealth.

In «Submarine Politics,» the New Times wrote: «Despite a $ 1.8 million campaign war chest financed by county contractors and various special interest groups like the Florida International University Foundation, and an army of heavy - hitting political strategists such as Keith Fredericks, voters flatly rejected the tax increase because of their mistrust of county government.