Sentences with phrase «concern of voters»

â $ œStrengthening the nationâ $ ™ s economyâ $ was the top - ranked concern of voters in the Pew poll.

A simple fear of job competition is not the main concern of voters.

«I think he's stated his concerns of voter fraud and people voting illegally during the campaign.

Addressing her supporters, a subdued Merkel said the result gave her a «mandate» to govern but that the AfD's success would require «thorough analysis» to understand the concerns of their voters.

Recognizing that wining over working - class swing voters (or non-working-class voters with many struggling people in their social networks) requires, at minimum, addressing the everyday concerns of those voters — and recognizing that the fates of American working - class voters of all races and ethnicities are linked.

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

But there are two necessary dimensions to achieving effective strategic communications: crafting emotive, resonant messages that speak to the immediate concerns of voters and — just as necessary — positioning your campaign so as to have ownership of the simple narrative.

He urged his colleagues, many of whom are among the most ardent remainers, to try to understand the concerns of voters sceptical about the European Union.

In many respects opposition politicians win power primarily because they tend to have right message on jobs and those in government often fail to address the employment concerns of voters.

And he criticised Mr Brown for becoming out of touch with the concerns of voters, as epitomised by the former Prime Minister's disastrous election encounter with Rochdale pensioner Gillian Duffy, whom he branded a «bigoted woman» for raising legitimate concerns about immigration.

These subjects, and the reactions of candidates, are critical to voters as they represent the non-media directed concerns of voters in the 2016 election cycle.

He agreed that the cynical rollback of privacy rules via Congressional Review Act in March likely helped galvanize the electorate and perhaps cause a few people to cross party lines in order to better address the concerns of voters.

Not exact matches

Too often, voters place economic or political concerns over the immorality of prejudice and bigotry.

In fact, there are many credible ideas that address voters» most significant concerns and appeal to a broad swath of Democrats, Republicans, and independents.

It's the question any voter concerned about the state of the economy should put to every politician who comes to his or her door.

That would mean that over a third of voters might have been in play as far as party strategists were concerned.

Lawmakers and advocates expressed concern Friday that Sessions could sideline or undo the Obama administration's civil rights efforts, which have included investigations of police departments for unconstitutional practices and lawsuits meant to protect the rights of transgender individuals and black voters.

Jim Kessler, senior vice president for policy and co-founder of Third Way, a centrist policy think tank in Washington, D.C., echoes those comments: «For voters, the biggest conversation and the biggest concern is that the best days for them, their kids, and their communities may be in the past,» he says.

«Our study suggests that automation has been the real cause of voters concern,» said Frey, one of the paper's authors.

But according to the NSA report, evidence that the hackers were also stealing the login credentials of people with administrative access to the voter - registration systems raises concerns that the Russians were able to do «anything they wanted» — including, Bardin said, breaching voting machines.

Michael Zimmer, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he specialises in privacy and internet ethics, described this as a «particularly problematic» kind of voter targeting that raised broader concerns in the US about «packaging voters like they're consumers».

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

Government action to influence the price of goods might strike Canadians as out of place in the Conservative playbook but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories are acutely concerned about dispelling the notion they're the party of «big business» as they target middle - class voters.

In early 2017, global investors were rightly concerned about the potential for a populist backlash by voters in France and how it might affect Europe and the rest of the international economy.

Concerns that the French presidential election would see a surge of support for populism among French voters were allayed by the results from the first round of voting toward the end of April.

But he brushed off these concerns with a range of arguments that critical masses of voters evidently found persuasive.

The social network's announcement Friday could allay concerns of election experts and lawmakers that ads about hot - button social issues meant to be divisive and foment voter outrage might still slip through, leaving a dangerous weak spot on the network.

In 1998, at the height of the Clinton impeachment battle, evangelical voters were constantly confronting accusations from their secular, leftist friends that «it was all politics,» that evangelicals were less concerned with Bill Clinton's indiscretions than they were about his party identification.

No doubt some of them are, but that is beside the point» which is, that many, many of these voters have legitimate concerns to which an effective politics must give answers, not lectures on racial etiquette.

But it can be a part of a conservative strategy that focuses on the concerns of struggling voters.

Constantly concerned about alienating the southern wing of the Democratic Party, the Kennedys sought to channel the movement away from attacks on state segregation statutes, which, they claimed, were local conflicts in which federal authorities were powerless to intervene, and into voter registration efforts in which the national state could be of assistance.

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.

Yet, in one of the not infrequent contradictions of American politics, voters combine their concern for economic security» and their reliance on the state to guarantee it» with an intense generalized distrust of, and opposition to, big government.

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).

Plus, talking up religious liberty is likely less of a turnoff for moderate voters than is talk about bans on abortion and gay marriage, traditionally the top concerns of religious conservatives.

This week, Republicans face a delicate balancing act in trying to assuage the concerns of moderate women voters while also satisfying its religiously conservative base.

Donald Trump took over the Republican Party because Jack Kemp's heirs had failed to prioritize the concerns of working - class voters.

Clearly exhibiting a desire to smear the candidates and parties concerned, these pejorative labels represent a gross interference with the independence of voters to assess the character of the persons and entities coming before them.

The battle between Driehaus and a group of progressive Catholic supporters on the one hand and religious conservatives on the other is a reminder that abortion has become a key issue in the midterm elections in parts of the country, even as the economy and jobs remain voters» top concern.

This means that if a Republican could come up with a message to address the concerns of middle - class voters, «amazingly enough, he'll win a lot more Hispanic votes in the process.

The most frequently mentioned concern was «moral / ethical values,» with 35 percent of all voters putting that at the top of their list (55 percent of Bush voters, 17 percent of Gore voters).

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

The third decision concerned a 1992 statewide referendum in which the voters in Colorado adopted an amendment, known as Amendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discrimination.

Bill Ferris, veteran venture capitalist and chairman of Innovation and Science Australia, and Katherine Woodthorpe, chair of Fishburners startup centre, will tell the summit voters concerns» must be addressed after they rejected innovation in the election.

Commissioner Roger Kotecki of Glen Ellyn expressed concern that the lack of a firm estimate sends the wrong signal to voters, who soon must decide whether to approve a $ 75 million bond issue for land acquisition.

This feud, which involves a group of concerned residents and the League of Women Voters of Naperville, periodically threatens to shut down the entire operation.

In the first major act of rebellion at the autumn conference voters clearly rejected schools minister Sarah Teather's attempt to water down a motion stating that «conference is concerned by the establishment of academies and free schools under coalition government policy».

State GOP and Tea Party leaders have done so, but there is a nagging concern on the part of some that Paladino might well implode, leaving Republican and Conservative voters with no options.

Hilary Benn has made it clear he'd prefer to see Labour have its own, separate campaign targeting the concerns of traditional Labour voters.

Ukip now commands support of 13 % of rural voters, in a significant development that will be of deep concern to ministers.