Sentences with phrase «electorate look»

We've talked before about the key question in American politics in 2014: will this year's electorate look more like the people who elected droves of Republicans in 2010 or those who reelected Barack Obama in 2012?

The big question for American politics in 2014: will this year's electorate look more like 2012 or 2010?

«Understanding who you are polling, understanding what the map looks like, what the electorate looks like is so important, and that's why so much of the public polling was off,» he continued.

Labour right - wingers look obsessively to a so - called third way formula, which at least, on its own terms, made sense in the post-cold war 1990s but which is irrelevant to the post-crash 2010s and an angry electorate looking for radical change, and which has taken social - democratic parties to oblivion across continental Europe.

But if he did pretend it fooled enough of the electorate who thought he was too left wing, so they voted Tory, I can't believe that the electorate looked at Ed, said, Ah, he's only pretending to have spent the last 5 years denouncing New labour, let the 2 people who got him in place, Mkclusky and Paul Kenny, get Blaitites Liam Byrne, Frank fileld sacked, then say as opposed to new labour he had a social conscience, yet when it comes to it, he's really new labour as he's not left wing enough, I'll vote for a party who are right wing, they'd have all voted greens if they wanted it

Not exact matches

If??? as is looking increasingly likely??? this budget sparks an election, the prime minister, and the electorate, know exactly who to blame.

Another mistake pollsters made was to assume an electorate that looked more like the one that voted in 2004 and less like 2008, which had larger - than - usual minority and youth turnout.

«We're proud of our history of supporting civic engagement and election volunteerism and look forward to sharing best practices and learning from others to foster a more active electorate.»

The second response of the Republican elites is to look for the next pretty face that will distract the electorate from their discontent with the conventional GOP's errors of the last sixteen years.

«You're looking at $ 40 - 50 million dollars just in my electorate,» he told The Australian Financial Review.

But what's BAD for Labour is BLOODY BRILLIANT for the rest of the poor electorate who have been forced into financial hardship by the very people they looked to for help in 1997.

Turnout doubtless goes up when the electorate wants to give the incumbent party of government a good kicking, but it also goes up when the result looks like being close run.

«The combination of declining newspaper circulations and increased restrictions on parties» ability to raise and spend funds mean we need to take a fresh look at how we give parties the opportunity to communicate directly with the electorate.

But it's not impossible to sketch a pretty good picture of what the electorate will look like.

«We do a random sample of more than 800 registered voters and our sample looks like the New York electorate both in terms of geography, bipartisan break up, gender, age, income etc. so we do it very carefully to ensure we get a representative sample,» said Greenberg.

It would look like the worst sort of opportunism to the electorate, the recent generation of politicians would be mightily peed off at having to reface the electorate so soon, and the chances of an overall Tory majority are miniscule.

Farron reaches parts of the electorate where we don't normally get a look in.

All the major pollsters quote figures that give more weight to this group than to others - with the results that we're actually only looking at a proportion of the electorate.

Still, a look at the city's electorate highlights an uphill battle for Malliotakis.

In short, which of the candidates looks most like a potential Prime Minister to the wider electorate?

Yet this is the electorate of the future; most of Britain doesn't look like London yet, and a coalition of Londoners isn't enough to win elections.

But rather than blame the Labour electorate for the rise of Corbyn, the party should instead look at the paucity of the alternatives.

Additionally, as Alexei pointed out, Congress isn't statistically big - and there's even fewer valid «none» seats if you start looking at Politically Wonkish details - Texas electorate outside Austin guarantees a Christian representation, so TX seat - or West Virgina - doesn't get to be counted if you study this phenomenon.

Politically, «recent» Ukip converts look much more like the electorate as a whole than «early» converts.

De Blasio punched all the right buttons at all the right times — that is, just when a restive electorate was looking to throw off the old in favor of the new, along came Bill.

The nice thing about the timing is that we electorate will get to see what an all - blue Washington looks like.

Many of them looked naturally vulnerable in the face of a presidential year's higher turnout and more diverse electorate.

We're looking at having Lords with 15 year terms, with no prospect of re-election, on a voting system that the electorate have just rejected in a referendum.

My own guess is that Cammo will concede a PR referendum, because the electorate will vote it down (and if it looks risky he can put in a turnout threshhold as Labour did on a Scottish Parliament in 1978 - 9).

The authors look at the mindset of the electorate in 2010, assess the party leaders» strategies, and seek to explain why the Lib Dem vote declined in the final week and how Labour maintained a comparatively high share of the final vote in the face of gloomy predictions.

«I was with Prince Audu just a few days ago, at the mega rally of our great party, where we marketed our party's manisfesto to the electorate and he looked hale and hearty as he dished out his plans to restore the glory of his state.

And the PM is convinced that at the very last moment, Britain's electorate will look into their hearts and agree the risk is too high to back UKIP.

The upshot, therefore, is that we must avoid looking at poll data showing high percentages of public support and mistake it for an indication of what the electorate wants government to actually do.

And a look at the great mass of lower middle class C1 / C2 voters - who make up half the electorate — strongly suggests this to be the case.

Looking down the road, 61 % of the New York State electorate believes the Senate will be less effective in the future as a result of the current battle in the chamber.

The head - to - head debate between Cameron and Miliband still looks improbable as empty chairing Cameron should he not show up would leave the electorate with the potential of Ed Miliband having a farcical Clint Eastwood moment.

Now the electorate seems to be taking the possibility of one seriously, what would a Labour cabinet actually look like?

What has happened is that the electorate have now started to look at the Conservative party for the first time for over a decade... They've started to think about the choice in a way that they've not been doing — and I think that's why the momentum is starting to go against them.»

Very soon a foolish looking segment of our electorate will turn on this illegitimate phony.

He told the programme he wouldn't play a «sort of eenie meanie miney moe about which party I prefer» and instead look at which party had a mandate from the electorate.

Strategists sought solace in any survey that looked good, but with less than 48 hours remaining before the polls close on Tuesday, both parties concentrated on direct voter contact, built on months of sophisticated analysis of the electorate and microtargeting of tens of millions of voters around the country.

Looking at one of the most pressing problems in New York State — the economic crisis — 68 % of the electorate disapproves of how Paterson is handling the situation, and 23 % approve.

«If you look at the way the Republican electorate is viewing politicians who are part of the Washington establishment, which is really a do - nothing Congress... it's not favorable,» Lukaske said.

If Cameron is unable to look like a winner with a coherent message, then Gordon could be back in, unless Labour appears to 2/3 of the electorate to be so out of control that Labour suffers the sort of defeat that the Tories were dealt in 1997.

What we should be looking to do is to find reforms to devolution that are fair to England and that would also find favour with the Scottish electorate.

They look set to learn for themselves that being in power and taking difficult decisions sees the electorate punishing you at local elections.

Unlike other studies that have looked at the influence of social media on election outcomes, their study, «More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior,» took into account such variables as incumbency, partisanship, media coverage, and socio - demographic makeup of the electorate.

A cursory look at the site shows the majority of those registered are white — similar to the broad swathe of the American electorate that carried the Republican to power.

This country is stuck with politicians who look after their own interests and until the electorate vote in some ethical people, our country is only going backward.

When we look at the issues relating to peak oil, energy security, terrorism, and the economy, you have the support of many more people, perhaps 3/4 of the electorate.