Sentences with phrase «electorate over»

Those two factors — combined with a better than 20 - point lead heading into the final days and little movement by the electorate over the last month — position Brown to be in a very strong position to win the nomination for a fourth term as Buffalo mayor,» Greenberg said.

The decisions by politicians and the electorate over the next 10 months will be incredibly important for the future of the United Kingdom.

But the answer is as divided as the British electorate over the decision to leave the European Union.

Not exact matches

The Electorate of Canning by - election in Western Australia on September 19 will take a snapshot of the national mood, just over two years on from the federal poll.

And both wait to see what, if any actions the federal Liberals take over an oil sands pipeline they've championed and a coast they've vowed to protect, along with electorates in two provinces with profoundly different priorities.

As President Donald Trump takes the country closer to an economic nationalism that calls for tearing up agreements like NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership, potentially enacting higher tariffs on imports and obsessing over trade deficits, it is worth reflecting on a similar debate that inflamed the electorate 130 years ago.

 What tools? What circumstances? He would not specify, preferring simply to leave an oblique but dark cloud hanging over the electorate's heads.

There is now a lot of soul - searching about the direction of the Republican Party and much doubting of its future viability if does not adapt itself in some way to an electorate that has (it is said) fundamentally shifted over the last few decades.

At the same time, the electorate is split over their comfort level with a specific religion, Mormonism, and the prospect of a Mormon serving as president.

The idea, for instance, that because science tells us about the maturing brain we ought to raise the drinking age to twenty - five is going to go over big, with an electorate that can vote at eighteen.

A major public concern has been that the paid - time religious broadcasters, through their media activities, exercised a disproportionate power over the American electorate.

Voters in Barnaby Joyce's electorate of New England speak with mixed emotions over the outgoing Nationals leader's resignation.

On the one side, a portion of the public, and much of the electorate, is so bitter over PEDs that they want to tar and feather the lot of ballplayers from the so - called «Steroid Era» (if you can define both the beginning and the end of said era, please feel free) before they even let them inside the city limits of Cooperstown.

The NLD even won all four seats in the newly built capital, Naypiyadaw, where powerful men (they are all men) from the military establishment form over half the electorate.

It is all very well announcing ten policies a day which go over the heads of the electorate.

In 2005, Ipsos MORI calculated that the voting power of those over 55 in the UK was worth over 4 times that of 18 - 34 year - olds, due both to the ageing of the electorate and to young people's very low voting turnouts.

At a meeting in the manhyia place earlier today where President Mahama called on the Asantehene at the manhyia palace, the Asante monarch, Otumfuo listed projects such as the Kumasi Central market, the over one thousand hospital beds to be added to the Ashanti region's hospital bed stock few months from now, the road and water projects, the military hospital, among others as achievements the president must continue selling to electorates.

If politics was truly sex and gender equal, statistics would dictate that over time, the electorate should come to represent the population, more or less.

The Edo electorate, by voting Godwin Obaseki, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, over Osagie Ize - Iyamu, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), seemed to have done just that.

Cardiff, Liverpool, Newcastle and Brighton and Hove have all seen a reduction in the size of the electoral register of over 15,000, well over ten per cent of the existing electorate.

The Central Regional Director of the NCCE, Nicolas Ofori Boateng who made the observation, said the situation had influenced voter turnout at district level elections over the past years, as the electorates had lost confidence or felt betrayed by the assembly members.

And even then, heading into Election Day, the campaign's internal modeling predicted an electorate that voted for Mitt Romney over Obama by 2 percentage points.

In the space of three years he went from being lauded as the UK's most successful chancellor of the exchequer who had declared the «end of boom and bust» and «the beginning of a new Golden Age» to presiding over a country in a debilitating credit crunch amid Labour in - fighting, a breakdown in relations with many colleagues including his chancellor, and ultimately a failure to dissuade the electorate against the Tory / Lib Dem mantra that Labour allowed it all to go wrong.

Enda Kenny pleads on live TV before Ireland becomes only country in the world where electorate will vote over same - sex marriage

After all, she's the most visible; a staple in the Flushing community and she has the proven ability to trounce her opponents, but like many districts, only a small percentage of the electorate actually show up for critical primaries — and those that do have proven over and over that they favor Toby Stavisky.

Sanders had an advantage over Clinton in Wisconsin because of the overwhelmingly white electorate and pockets of liberal voters in a state that allowed anyone to vote in its primary.

To Nigerians with discerning minds, electoral exercise as practiced the world over is both programme and strategy based and a keen contest where the candidates with the best programme and realistic strategies for achieving that programme is given priority / favored by the electorates.

For Labour, concessions to this by constant apologies that the last government got it «wrong» on immigration or saying there are «legitimate concerns» on immigration are seen in the same way and risk repelling significant sections of the electorate, especially among those Labour needs to win over or persuade to turn out — notably 2010 Liberal Democrats and ethnic minority voters.

The current list of candidates — Jeremy Corbyn, Angela Eagle and Owen Smith — all have fine qualities, but none of them is likely to pull off the difficult task of winning over Labour members, a majority of the PLP and the electorate.

The current Tory government received the support of just over a third of voters and less than a quarter of the electorate, the last Labour government much the same.

If England was already independent, its electorate would (by almost 3 to 2) be happy to join up with fellow Leave voters in Wales, but only fractionally over half of English people would want to enter a union with Scotland if they weren't already in one.

This is all well and good for Cuomo, who, if he runs for president, will have to perform that classic two - step: winning over a liberal base first, a general electorate second.

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

Truth be told, let's say that the Ghanaian electorate are intelligent enough to plot developments over the period to know which government did what for them.

Also, he recognised that the 2015 election would be transitional with online communications and over many months he obtained the email addresses of 10,000 voters, about a quarter of the electorate.

David Cameron was holding «great swathes of the electorate in contempt» over a «sham consultation» about gay marriage, said Dr Sharon James from the Coalition For Marriage campaign group.

Party tacticians have concluded that Labour can be returned to office with the support of little over a third of the electorate.

With the Representation of the People Act 1918, almost all adult men (excepting only peers, criminals and lunatics) and most women over the age of thirty were given the right to vote, almost tripling the British electorate at a stroke, from 7.7 million in 1912 to 21.4 million in 1918.

The Party tends to «put a sheet over» people like John Redwood (and, it would seem, David Davis) these days, in case they frighten the electorate too much.

Latimer's executive order — which will not impact the legality of shows on private property — marks a culmination of controversy over the past year which saw Democrats and Republicans, as well as an invigorated electorate, debate whether or not to continue hosting shows.

«Over time, it is likely to skew the electorate in ways that are not desirable or fair.»

The middle of the electorate is disgusted with corrupt political party insiders; and partially voted for Obama based on their view he was «clean»... a view largely promoted by a media that ignored or glossed over a lot of evidence to the contrary.

Outsourcing responsibility over Brexit to a future ministry could reassure an overwhelmed electorate that experts will solve the issue on their behalf, calming the sense of urgency surrounding the topic and allowing attention to slowly turn anew to domestic issues.

As such, in elections where a large portion of electorate isn't terribly inspired by either candidates, and mostly votes for «lesser of two evils» in current FPTP, the two major party candidates just might accrue enough down - votes that a 3rd party candidate who isn't nearly as disliked will, on balance, win over both of them (or at the very least, acquire more than the abysmal 4 % combined popular vote and 0 electoral vote like 2016 US presidential elections, despite 3rd party candidates combined likely being preferred by 40 % of electorate, as a low bound).

Across BBC Question Time, radio phone - ins and newspaper polls, the electorate has begun to demand political unity, fearing a political breakdown or a weak, internally - divided government being outmuscled by Brussels in negotiations over Brexit.

But he has taken some personal blows — to say nothing of eggs — particularly over expenses, that may over the long - term tarnish his anti-establishment message and reduce his appeal to UKIP's «new electorate».

Indeed, YouGov polling suggests the electorate instinctively prefers May and Leasdom over their male competitors.

As it stands, turnout for mayoral elections in England has not been over 50 % of the electorate — which does not bode well for the forthcoming Greater Manchester mayoral elections to be held in May 2017.

Senior members of the party want Mr Cameron to announce a number of new policy proposals in the new year as a way of taking the electorate's focus away from the economy, over which he has appeared weak when compared to Gordon Brown in recent polls.

It's not so much that the winner has half the electorate behind them, more that because of a weird counting system, they have crawled over the finishing line.