Sentences with phrase «came from voters»

By June, almost a quarter (22 %) of Ukip's support came from voters who previously chose one of these two parties.
Maffei's strongest base of support came from voters in the city of Syracuse, where minorities account for more than 40 percent of the population.
Of the the absentees, 6,168 were cast by Republicans, 5,330 from Democrats, while 1,072 came from voters of the Conservative and Independence parties, which endorsed Toulon.
Labour's lead — usually in the double digits — has fallen to five per cent, but the movement comes from voters returning to the Tories or confirming it made them more likely to vote, rather than any influx of Liberal Democrat or Labour voters.
The new data come from voters polled in the three regions — the Capital Region, Southern Tier / Finger Lakes and Catskills / Hudson Valley — where 17 casino developers are vying for up to four licenses.
In an echo of the Sen. Arlen Specter - Pat Toomey fight that prompted the Pennsylvania senator to abandon the GOP - many of the toughest attacks on the Republican nominee, state assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, are coming from voters who identify themselves as conservatives.
«So if those common mistakes are happening then it means that the NCCE didn't do a good job because if they had done a good job, I don't think we would have these common errors coming from the voter,» Mr. Ayariga added when he addressed the media after the adjournment of the party's suit against the EC on Wednesday.
Democrat DiNapoli's first term as comptroller in early 2007 didn't come from voters, but from the opaque levers of power in Albany.
The fastest growing political party in California, many political experts say that the American Independent Party's growth comes from voter confusion.
The decision to remove those politicians and their operatives working against our vital public interests, must first come from voters awakened out of their apathy toward the political affairs and governance of their treasury, and empower candidates who possess the will to do what is good and right.
The $ 17.5 million from APS comes from voter - approved bonds and mil levy.
CNM's $ 17.5 million will come from voter - approved bonds.

Not exact matches

The latest result to come in is from Swindon in Wiltshire where voters have backed Leave by 55 % to 45 %.
But although voters want government to act, jobs increasingly are not coming from government, but from companies, where job tenure is unstable.
Switzerland's voters — 77 percent of whom rejected basic income — didn't like the moral impact of handing someone a check, but also couldn't figure out where the money would come from.
He mentioned some of the claims, including one that five busloads of black voters from Mississippi came into the state to vote, which he said was proven false after an investigation.
The overhaul came in response to increasing pressure Facebook endures over its potentially negative impact on society, from sharing violent videos to letting fake news run unchecked to its late acknowledgement that Russian operatives had used to platform to target U.S. voters.
The closest shareholders came to rebellion came from the lower voter approval for re-electing Murdoch's two sons, Lachlan and James.
That masterful admission came from the executive editor of The New York Times, Dean Baquet, concerning journalists» inability to report on the effects of faith on the voters of the 2016 election.
But in 1996 the President attracted 57 percent of modernist Catholics, with the increase coming almost equally from former Perot and Bush voters.
The reality is 65 million people voted for Trump... and while a lot of those votes came from people who were legitimately frustrated with both political parties and wanted someone to shake up the system, and a lot of votes cam from traditional doctrinaire Republican voters who held their nose and voted for the guy because they wanted a tax cut, and other voters were pseudo-moralistic Evangelical hypocrites who wanted to reward McConnell for STEALING Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat, there were a whole lot of Trump voters — including a lot of voters from Pennsylvania's «T» — who voted for Trump because they are racist, white supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again»).
Of Notre Dame's four first - place votes, two come from résumé voters Black Heart Gold Pants and CougCenter; Florida gets its five from Florida State blog Tomahawk Nation, SEC blog Team Speed Kills, Kansas State blog Bring On The Cats, Notre Dame blog One Foot Down, and Matt Hinton of Sunday Morning Quarterback and CBS Sports» Eye on College Football.
The remainder of the funds will come from a $ 4 million measure that voters approved in 1994.
It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.
Possible problems with democracy that come to my mind are from the Public Choice literature and other economic models of voters and politicians.
The choice before the voters this year is Andrew Cuomo - someone with a proven record that includes successful actions conducted by the AG's office he headed, and Carl Paladino, who is a successful businessman who profited from government contracts and subsidies, but who otherwise holds extremist views that even if elected would never come to fruition.
«Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine,» the billionaire real estate mogul, who is leading in opinion polls among likely Republican voters, said in the statement.
He talks of the «negative noise» voters will hear, which he suspects will come from the very folks on Wall Street he antagonized so well for two terms as attorney general.
A legal fight over the purging of more than 200,000 voters from the city's rolls could be coming to a close, according to court papers.
Secondly, and more importantly when it comes to the future of the party, we had spent decades building up a very local base of electoral support, from council to parliamentary levels, on the basis of populist, or indeed protest, issues that played well with disgruntled voters, but almost impossible to deliver in government.
To them, success comes from greater commitment to the NHS and education, and more policies designed to please the crucial BME and women voters.
More telling could be results coming in from Stockport and Salford, where Leave are expected to do well among traditional Labour voters.
Under this worst - case scenario, where all of the 239 cases reported come from separate instances of detectable voter fraud, it's still not enough to have any significant impact on the majority of elections.
So it is unsurprising that UKIP support in the polls comes much more from former Conservative voters than from Labour or the Liberal Democrats.
While overwhelmingly Democratic African - American voters have received considerable attention from Clinton during the campaign, black leaders refused to reciprocate by coming to her defense when she and her husband came under attack, the source charged.
Hundreds of voters were prevented from casting ballots in the May primary when the state eliminated these reforms — a disturbing preview of what's to come.
The latest polling intelligence on how voters are actually reacting to the endless speeches and stratagems comes in the form of a poll from Survation published in today's Daily Record.
SNP Campaign Director John Swinney said: «This is an encouraging poll which shows a significant lead for the SNP amongst older people and a further fall in support for Labour amongst some of their traditional voters — highlighting just how far Labour have come from their founding principles.
Scotland will undertake its 10th vote on independence from the Union this coming autumn, and the low - levels of likely voter turn out make it hard to predict the outcome.
That has left the Senate Democrats in a somewhat awkward position of either trying to convince voters that they have more in common with a fellow Democrat than the Republicans do — even if Cuomo himself won't come out and say it — or sniping at Cuomo from the sidelines by questioning his Democratic bona fides (a la Sen. Tony Avella, who has become something of an expert at this).
After all, the party won well over 40 % support at the last election, with a lot of it coming from older and white British voters, from Leavers, and from those with small - c Conservative values and a belief in a smaller, less active state.
It will be on differentiating the PM from the Labour leader and giving voters a straight choice come May 2015 — a presidential selection of «me or him».
Walk - lists, after all, come from a database, and voter contacts yield plenty of information ripe for tabulation and analysis.
The Deliberation Day event aims to cut through the spin and biased information coming from the campaigning groups by encouraging all voters to spend a day learning and deliberating about the issue.
But for the first time, more voters (49 percent) say the time has come from the AG to make his political intentions clear rather than waiting still longer to announce his candidacy (36 percent).
«I totally reject this notion, which is coming from a lot of people on the left, that we mustn't criticise leave voters,» said Christie.
I'm just back from traveling through Texas and Louisiana, and it's always great to come home to an article as full of fun as this one: New Scientist reports from an e-crime summit in Pittsburg that in the coming years, «voters will increasingly be targeted by internet - based dirty tricks campaigns, and that the perpetrators will find it easier to cover their tracks.»
Nixon's campaign said in its press release that the candidate will spend the coming weeks traveling across the state to hear from voters.
Voters in East Hampton Town will have at least three chances in the coming week to hear from the candidates for East Hampton Town trustee.
Voters would be given an independent «none of the above» option on their ballot papers, and the proportion of votes for this option would determine the number of representatives who came from the independents list.
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