Sentences with phrase «draw more voters»

Despite the dismal primary numbers, Lenihan believes the County Executive's race will draw more voters in places like Buffalo's Fillmore district to the polls.

Not exact matches

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

So that means the fight for control of the Senate will head into the general election in a presidential election year that traditionally draws out more Democratic voters.

In The Lost Majority, Lord Ashcroft draws on his unique research to explain why the thumping victory the Tories expected never happened: what real voters made of the campaign, why Britain refused Theresa May's appeal for a clear mandate to negotiate Brexit, where the party stands after more than a decade of «modernisation» — and the Tories» mammoth task of building a winning coalition when 13 million votes is not enough for victory.

Among Democrats, Sanders has drawn bigger crowds and more fervent supporters than Clinton, particularly among younger voters.

She later moved to the Cuomo administration, working first on his campaign's effort to draw in more women voters through the Women's Equality Party and later as a special advisor on issues such as combating campus rape and sexual assault.

The recent scandals focusing on Governor Paterson have drawn Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch into the public's view, and more voters have formed an opinion about his job performance.

Voters like the idea (69 - 20) of an independent redistricting commission of the sort being pushed by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch and his NY Uprising PAC and believe (71 - 14) taking the power of drawing legislative and congressional district lines would make for more competitive elections in the future.

«The 2012 redistricting process was business as usual in Albany, with the majority parties controlling the process and lines being drawn for partisan purposes rather than in the best interests of voters, with greater candidate choice and more contested elections,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.

But if the process really does draw in lots of voters, it is more likely in general to pull parties to the centre and further diminish electoral choice.

The April 19 date, further, would seem to favor Republicans because the party's presidential primary is more likely to be fluid (and therefore draw out voters) than the Democrats.

If you want election districts to be drawn independently to more accurately group voters rather than to guarantee that a particular political party wins on Election Day, vote yes.

Presidential elections draw out more voters than off - year State Senate elections, and according to Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Fordham University, that translates to more minorities and young people, who tend to vote for Democrats.

Kennedy's trouble in the district may also come in part after the 2012 round of redistricting drew in more black voters (Grant herself is African - American).

Democrats will likely be helped across the board in 2016, a presidential election year that will likely draw out more Democratic voters than last year.

Democrats in particular are confident they will make gains in next year's legislative races in part due to it being a presidential election year, which will typically draw out more Democratic voters in New York.

These are apples and oranges comparisons for obvious reasons: New York has more Democratic voters than Republican ones for starters, while turnout in primaries is a notoriously difficult to gage and draw deeper conclusion from for a general election.

He intends to tailor his message more explicitly to minority voters, drawing more attention to his overhaul of the Rockefeller mandatory - drug - sentencing laws.

The judges in the redistricting case, Reena Raggi and Gerard E. Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Dora L. Irizarry of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, noted that the magistrate judge they assigned to draw the new map managed to do in just two weeks what lawmakers «have been unable, or unwilling, to provide New York State voters in more than a year.»

Democratic voters are more invigorated than they've been in generations, a key factor in a special election that is likely to draw only the most fervent true believers to the polls.

I would venture that the ultra-libertarian section of the electorate to whom this policy appeals is massively outweighed by the more conservative - minded pool of voters from which UKIP has generally drawn its support.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Sanders may have drawn more independent voters to the polls.

Mr Corbyn is expected to appear on television more often, while strategists are drawing up new policies aimed at capturing the imagination of ordinary voters disillusioned with the political status quo.

Four years ago, more than 7,300 voters turned out in a district that often draws less than 4,000 voters.

While some are forwarding the suggestion that younger voters are more likely drawn to Sanders, Hillary Clinton's supporters say she has plenty of young blood backing her campaign.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

Our voters agree that John Carpenter's 1982 remake, «The Thing», which drew more heavily on Campbell's story, is the superior film — but there's plenty here to chill the blood and spark the imagination.

Were the election to draw an electorate more traditionally aligned to the Democratic Party — with higher participation from the African American and Latino community and more support from younger voters and single mothers — the results may have been different but not assured.

They simply lack messages that resonate enough to draw out their reliable base and tap more Independent voters.

Fortunately, voters in June finally drew the line, rejecting the district's seventh appeal for more bonding authority.