Sentences with phrase «elections as voters»

Lib Dem councils will be wiped out in local elections as voters pronounce on the great betrayal.

Other incumbents may be ousted in the November General Elections as voters express their displeasure with wrongdoing and legislators who go back on key election pledges.

Local success boosted the party's chances in Westminster elections as voters were more likely to support the Liberal Democrats where it had a chance of winning, thereby diluting concerns that voting for the party would be a wasted effort.

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

Not exact matches

Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among young voters as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections.

The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook was the chief venue for the spread of misleading fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.

Voters liked the pitch, even though, as Abe admitted, «it's very rare for monetary policy to be the focus of an election.»

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

Most state election officials scoffed at the idea, while Trump critics described his obsession as thinly veiled racism against Hispanic and African - American voters.

Since the HST is a highly visible, in your face, daily encountered tax, have Ontario voters been more silent but will be just as deadly in the upcoming provincial election?

- Starbucks will be joining the TurboVote Challenge in a technology - supported attempt to make it easier for employees to vote, as part of nonprofit Democracy Works» larger goal of 80 % voter participation in the 2020 election.

The assertions of voter fraud, which Trump first made shortly after the election, gained traction this week after Trump, as president, repeated them during a closed - door meeting with congressional leaders on Monday.

During the election, Trump scored points with an array of working - class voters by saying he would renegotiate trade deals, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which the president has said favored other countries over the U.S.

Steinmeier's intervention suggests he regards a new election - desired by half of Germany's voters according to a poll - as a last resort.

Deep Root Analytics, a conservative data firm contracted by the RNC as part of a push to ramp up its voter - analytics operation in the wake of Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential election, stored details of about 61 % of the US population on an Amazon cloud server without password protection for those two weeks.

The group recognizes that in order to maintain its status as a heavyweight among Democratic voters and supporters in future elections, it needs to engage online.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

Italian elections are due to take place during the first half of 2018, and have the potential to deliver another political upset, although recently there have been signs that populist parties — most notably the Five Star Movement, which according to polls enjoys similar levels of support among Italian voters as the ruling Democratic Party — are toning down their calls for a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone.

The voter ID pilot has descended into chaos during the local elections as constituents have been turned away from their polling stations.

Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, facing voter scorn over corruption, tepid economic growth and rising violence, loosened its rules earlier this month to allow it to form coalitions and let a non-party member run as its candidate in 2018 presidential elections.

The Strategic Counsel poll referenced earlier, for example, found that 15 percent of voters ranked the environment as the most important issue, up from three percent in the last election.

The bleaker fiscal outlook, released Wednesday, surfaces as political parties are pitching economic policies to voters ahead of the October election.

-- In his first election campaign as leader of Progressive Conservatives in 2011, Tim Hudak failed to connect with Ontario voters — critics panned his performance as wooden and artificial.

In this context, early public opinion polling has shown that Canadian voters view the economy as the highest - priority issue in the 2008 election.

As more than a few columnists have been writing, voters in Calgary will be the most important constituency in 2019 election.

Mr. Fildebrandt is sour from a recent interview Ms. Tait published in which she quotes him as claiming the NDP duped Alberta voters by actually implementing promises made during the election (and he later referred to Ms. Tait as a b - list reporter and accused her of auditioning for a job in the Premier's Office — a comment he later retracted).

If, by chance, Mr. Allen did resign as MLA, voters in the northern Alberta constituency would choose a new representative in a by - election.

The political firm, which consulted on President Donald Trump's campaign, siphoned data from some 50 million Facebook users as it built an election - consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world.

Election experts say Facebook must crack down on inflammatory ads on politically divisive issues such as immigration reform and gun rights, which were used to influence voters during and after the presidential campaign.

Hydro — Despite telling voters ahead of the election that hydro rates wouldn't necessarily go up, as soon as the election was over the Clark government announced a massive 28 - per - cent hike, which will make customers pay $ 477 more on their bill.

Simcha Felder says he will stick with New York Republicans, even as voters went to the polls in special elections that could make him the swing vote.

-- «Goodbye, neighborhood polling places — 5 counties switch to mega-vote centers,» by CALmatters» Rhonda Lyons: «This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer «one - stop vote centers» — an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last midterm elections.»

As long as the Republicans were winning presidential elections with the robust support of evangelical voters, it seemed that evangelicals had swept the field of Protestant religion in the United StateAs long as the Republicans were winning presidential elections with the robust support of evangelical voters, it seemed that evangelicals had swept the field of Protestant religion in the United Stateas the Republicans were winning presidential elections with the robust support of evangelical voters, it seemed that evangelicals had swept the field of Protestant religion in the United States.

I am white and I supported President Obama in both elections as did many other white voters so it wasen't just the black community that got President Obama elected..

Pundits who throughout the summer had billed the elections as the first post-Webster «referendum on abortion» increasingly argued, as fall rolled around, that abortion had «faded» as a decisive issue for voters.

The tax radicalism marks you as an unserious candidate and a general election disaster, when somewhat conservative voters want a competent winner.

As a wave of disappointed voters announced on Twitter that Trump's election has led them to drop the label evangelical, den Dulk speculated that evangelical believers who voted for Clinton may have been less likely to identify that way in exit polls, widening the born - again gap between the two candidates.

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.

Abortion issues seemed left in the dust as economic concerns drove this year's election, but on Tuesday voters ousted several pro-life Democrats and ushered in fiscal conservatives who tend to oppose abortion.

The move comes as a response to criticism and concern that «fake news» (essentially, stories that were fabricated by shady websites to generate traffic and revenue) was so prevalent during the election, that many voters were confused as to what was true and what was just made up.

However, the closing of polls at one time through Canada, as in the U.S., would help insure that all voters have an equal opportunity to vote before «election results» begin to be announced.

He urged all voters to consider all of the issues raised as they cast their ballots on the June 8 General Election.

For instance, in last year's Dutch election 85 % of CD voters described themselves as religious; for the Socialists, Liberals, and Democrats «66, the figures were 55 %, 40 %, and 25 % respectively.

As The Nation pointed out after the election, «One out of every four Trump voters voted with the Supreme Court in mind, and it's a safe bet that a very substantial number of those see the Supreme Court through the lens of abortion politics... If you can rally voters around abortion, few other issues matter.»

It's really very simple, and it's a non-issue that is being spouted as an «assault» in a desperate attempt to skew voters to the GOP side of the election.

Health care was the No. 1 policy priority for white evangelical voters (and the American public as a whole) in the recent election, the Pew Research Center found.

As with any election year, the topic of abortion has been a key issue for religious voters.

There are some voters who don't see the election as a contest between two candidates who have differing opinions on nuanced, complicated economic, diplomatic and social issues, but as one between a candidate who is against abortion, and one who supports a woman's right to have one.

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I can tell you, as an election judge in the last presidential election, most voters came up to the...