Sentences with phrase «electoral impact»

Journalists, analysts, and campaigners dissected the potential electoral impact of projects with exotic names such as «Dreamcatcher,» «Narwhal,» «Optimizer,» and «Orca,» all while arguing about the importance of «A / B testing», web site «optimization», and field experiments.

While he said he can't comment on the potential electoral impact of the transit crisis, Riders Alliance Executive Director John Raskin said that «commuter rail and subway riders are holding Gov. Cuomo directly accountable for the success or failure of our transit system and so far there's been a lot more failure than success.»

While the electoral impact of Russian trolls who amplified anti — Hillary Clinton memes can be disputed, there's a strong argument that social media has had a toxic effect on American society, driving polarization and creating paranoia.

The short answer is no - abolishing the electoral college would not significantly change the electoral impact that «fringe» voters would have on the outcome of an election.

Ed Miliband would have seemed a strong leader, Labour would have got a better candidate and London's proportional voting system would have helped neutralise the electoral impact.

Excuse my scepticism, but I can not see this project having anything like that kind of electoral impact.

She's aware there's a real risk the Conservative - controlled council will seek to limit the electoral impact of the scheme by dragging its collective feet.

But Labour has blunted the electoral impact by not raising income tax rates, even cutting the basic rate by 1p to 22p in the pound.

Eliot Spitzer, a former state governor and attorney general, argued that because New York City is overwhelmingly Democratic, corruption is even more prevalent in local Republican organizations struggling to make an electoral impact with relatively little amounts of money and influence.

While it's too early to definitively handicap the electoral impact of a Republican call for carbon taxation (we have, after all, no political data points to go by), it's not too early to handicap the electoral impact of the position forwarded by most of the Republican presidential candidates today: pretending that climate change is an open scientific question while offering cheap fossil fuel as the holy grail of federal policy.