Sentences with phrase «do getting them to the polls»

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Buffett on Monday vowed to do «whatever it takes» to get out the vote in his congressional district in Nebraska, including driving voters himself to the polls to cast ballots.

I've polled every statewide election in Michigan going back 30 years... I don't like to get it wrong, but I'm not alone.»

I don't think we're shocked that the state polls got it wildly wrong, just surprised at the widespread degree that they got it wrong, giving a false sense to the prognosticators.»

I took a poll of the room asking the very simple question: «On a scale 1 to10, how hard do you feel it is to get a job in your desired industry?»

Similarly, an Ipsos Reid poll showed 60 % of respondents didn't think the government was working, a reflection of a «Tory brand» that was starting to get «a little tattered,» according to Mr. Bricker.

Of course, those realities don't automatically translate to getting people to the polls.

More than half of British women admit to flirting with men to get their own way, with a fifth saying they do so at work (according to a survey investigating gender bias and positive discrimination commissioned by comparison website confused.com, which polled 2,000 people).

A foul - mouthed Silverman pushes people to do whatever it takes to make it to the polls in spite of voter ID laws, while an uncensored Jackson orders disenchanted Obama supporters to «wake the f *** up» and get to work.

Wake up people — these behaviors will never go away, and politicians of both parties have no intention of getting rid of them — if they did, there'd be no issues to divide us at the polls.

This shows nothing more than ignorance of the bible and it's message for mankind maybe the President would do well to get alongside himself men of true faith Godly men who don't aspire for public office, who do nt name universities after themselves, who will tell him what Gods wants of him and not what the opinion polls want.

Rick is already polling pretty well nationwide, but I doubt very much he'll be able to beat Bachmann in Iowa — although he could always getting the bump that comes from doing better than expected.

While opinion polls may show it to be popular, get - tough legislation simply is not working: «Prison does not deter crime because criminals are too crazy, too drunk, too high, too uneducated, too unintelligent and too young to fully comprehend what they were doing at the time they broke the law.»

Even the Right who don't consider those traits to be a deal breakers should ask themselves how far she'd have gotten in the polls if she looked like Phyllis Schlafly.

A 2013 Gallup poll shows that only 9 percent of single 18 - to 34 - year - olds don't want to get married; only 3 percent of 35 - to 54 - year - olds.

For he can't seem to win a Coach of the Year award, his team doesn't get first - place status in a single weekly poll and his players aren't named to All - America teams.

I bet if we did a poll when DJ was hired, about how long it would take UMD to get a Top15 recruiting class, the responses would have been 5 - 10 years or never...... most excited for the upcoming season since 2001 - by TerpfanMA on Jun 3, 2016 5:33 PM Isn't it a great feeling that we are able to think (that all of these comments are about) its a big time recruit instead of just people bitching about Edsall though?

I think how to judge the number divide most accurately would be to do a Twitter and or Facebook poll for Arsenal fans only, this would get the true reflection overall.

You do a poll like that you'll also get non arsenal fans wanting to put pressure on the club saying they want Wenger out.

Consider a poll conducted last week by a local TV station, which asked respondents how Buffalo would do in 2002: 60 % said the Bills would at least make the playoffs; 7 % predicted they'd get to the Super Bowl and lose (a franchise speciality), and 14 % said they'd win it all.

Maybe admin should do a poll to see what they made of Xhaka's game — Excellent — Good — Decent — Bad — We can try to get to the bottom of this.

One such article (Untold also covered this article) claimed that 80 % of Arsenal supporters wanted Arsene Wenger to leave, but just clicking on the link reveals that the only people that were polled were the Arsenal Supporter's Trust (AST) a blatantly anti-Wenger group and the only surprise is that they did not get 100 % wanting Wenger out.

But like a lot of polls, the ways questions are phrased, what gets asked and what doesn't, and who gets asked and who doesn't have a lot to do with whether the poll means something or not.

Seriously, that's what is needed (Edited to add: I learned today that you need to SIGN UP to be able to do this — don't just show up at the polling place expecting to get to distribute food to voters.

I did make a few attempts to reach out to formula feeding moms via twitter and facebook to get them to reply to the poll too, but wasn't that successful.

We all can do something to make sure Obama gets elected - talk to your friends, families and neighbors and make sure that they all get to the polls or vote early.

Craft fairs are also great places to test new products because you can get direct feedback from your buyers — or if you're scared to ask them face to face, why not set up a mini voting booth or chalkboard poll, like Folksy seller Ruth Robinson did at one of her markets stalls.

I don't know how this poll is going to get spun in the end, but I'd like to register my objection to the options available.

Do you hope to get any polling as evidence a more «Rousseau - ish» society?

Three - a majority of Americans don't think Assault Weapons should be legal to buy and while different wording of that poll will get different answers (I know you can find the opposite argument)- never let it be said that I'm not fair.

It turns out that Thad Cochran didn't just make good strategic decisions, like courting Democratic voters in a Republican primary; his campaign also made the smart tactical choice to rely on a data - driven field operation to persuade voters and get his supporters to the polls last week:

«We're building a coalition in all 163 towns in NY - 19, of New Yorkers like those activists polled who are tired of the failed leadership of Rep. Faso, sick of the chaos in Washington, and ready for a new generation of leaders to get things done.»

It's showed up in terms of the number of people who do come to the polls and vote, but take a look at that race in Delaware, for instance, with Christine O'Donnell, and here's someone who got a big victory over a moderate Republican that was supported by the party structure.

A special local government Siena Research Institute poll finds a majority of voters say local governments beat the state on everything from understanding citizens» needs to «getting things done.»

That such occurs is essentially because, having got as far as a polling place, most people will vote, but they don't have to.

So even if all you can do is to get a few friends to show up at the polls, their presence may be decisive.

If he does, his first contribution could be to the New York City budget — saving the expense of a runoff election,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement, referring to the runoff election that will take place in October if no candidate gets 40 percent of the primary vote on Sept. 10.

A lot of it is just down to people saying don't know, it happens in all polls, other bits are just the natural churn you get in all directions between parties.

Mr. Astorino was not challenged in a primary — and as such didn't have to run advertisements reminding voters to hit the polls and choose him when they got there.

We have been approaching this very scientifically; we have been doing our own scientific polling and even some of the polling being done by independent people, the numbers are looking great and so I am confident that from what is being done scientifically, plus or minus any margin of error, we will make 50 % plus... «We are looking at issues of concern to people in different regions and so the campaign message is tailored to address the concerns we find in any particular region and the response we have got is very enthusiastic.

The poll did not ask about Teachout, who has not yet gotten onto the ballot and must circulate petitions, collecting at least 15,000 valid signatures from enrolled Democrats across the state, to do so.

If you can do any of get, say, a couple of million people to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the minimum wage; win parliamentary seats by running on this issue; or provide polling evidence showing majorities would repeal the race, gender discrimination laws, etc then I will withdraw the claim about this being a minority position.

I half expected the polls to all converge together in the run up to the election, as they have a tendency to do before general elections, but in reality we got the same sort of contrast as we do in Westminster polls.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

«A lot of people didn't want to go to their new poll site and names weren't found in the book, but I made it a point during my campaign to inform people of their new poll site to the best of my ability even though we didn't get the new list until 4 days before the election.»

People didn't have power, they didn't know where to vote, they didn't have gas to get to the polls, but they still got out and exercised their civic duty.

Democrats say that political ground warfare is a test of what the party will be doing in the push to get County Executive Poloncarz a second term and getting Cheektowaga Democrats to the polls is a key part of that.

Don't you have to get this passed by two consecutively elected iterations of the Legislature, and then approved by voters at the polls?

Attributing the achievements of President Mahama to his commitment to get things done even in difficult situations; Kofi Adams said the remarkable feat the president has chalked within just three years in office will certainly result in victory in this year's polls.

«The pressure is clearly going to mount because we have polling done and we've got elections coming up when the electorate are going to tell us how well they think we're doing.

We need more data on who really showed up to the polls before we can say this conclusively, but it's difficult to see how Labour got the numbers it did without a big increase at least in youth turnout.