Sentences with phrase «electorate remain»

Obviously it's great news for Spitzer that, despite all the hooker sex and whatnot, voters are still willing to give him a second chance, but a large chunk of the electorate remains undecided, and his unfavorable rating is twice that of Stringer's.

Until that happens there will be no political incentive to take things seriously, because no politician will lose their seat over it, because the electorate remains ignorant.

Not exact matches

Writing in the Telegraph on Wednesday night in conjunction with f ormer chancellors Lord Norman Lamont and Lord Nigel Lawson, the open letter accused the BoE and Treasury of «peddling phoney forecasts and scare stories to back up the attempts of David Cameron and George Osborne to frighten the electorate into voting Remain.»

However a great deal of uncertainty remains and the sense that the French electorate is dissatisfied with the political process persists.

I agree with ceaser that Romney's darn competence remains obvious, but will competence prevail given the ideological primary electorate?

Forcing the beliefs of some on the remaining electorate makes us no better than what some call theocratic societies.

In Wittenberg and the electorate of Saxony, the method of calling and ordaining a minister remained fluid until about 1535.

But all the would - be AGs — including Donovan — remain largely unknown to three - quarters of the electorate.

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

55 % of the state's electorate wants President - elect Barack Obama to select New York's junior senator as his Secretary of State while 31 % think Clinton should remain in the U.S. Senate.

The Tories had plainly failed to seal the deal with the electorate, who remained suspicious of David Cameron's agenda.

And if not, the question remains: how can election strategists turn on the electorate ahead of 7th May?

A study released last week indicates that Bill de Blasio's messaging had the greatest resonance online leading up to the New York City mayoral primary, but much remains unknown about the broader impact of the digital campaign on the electorate.

Turnout was higher than in a modern day general election, with approximately 72 % of the electorate voting — 52 % to leave the EU and 48 % to remain.

That failure is probably the principal reason why the electorate has remained as reluctant, as it was in May 2010, to vote for the Conservative Party in sufficient numbers for it to secure an overall majority at Westminster.

However, losing the support of the parliamentary party remains a significant problem and he still has work to do to convince the wider electorate.

The electorate of any constituency was to be as close as possible to a country - specific electoral quota to reduce malapportionment; where rigid adherence to the «as far as practicable» guidelines would mean a large disparity between electorates, the commissions were expressly empowered to form seats which combine parts of two (and where major disparity still remains, more) local government areas.

The electorate might yet be browbeaten into Remain but if so, it'd be a grudging and resentful remain, bought out of fear and against emotional instinct, and with an inherent expiryRemain but if so, it'd be a grudging and resentful remain, bought out of fear and against emotional instinct, and with an inherent expiryremain, bought out of fear and against emotional instinct, and with an inherent expiry date.

The size of the House of Commons remained at 658, there were still «pocket boroughs» and the electorate only increased from 478,000 to 813,000 out of a total population of 24 million.

On its face, probably not all that much, since to most of the GOP primary electorate the paper remains a liberal rag that frequently skirts the edge of treason, but with turnout expected to be low, there remain Republicans in wealthy parts of New York City suburbs who aren't paying much attention to the race, and will only decide who to vote for at the last moment, so a nod from the paper of record could prove decisive.

On Europe, rightly or wrongly, the arguments of Cameron (who wants to remain in a radically reformed Europe) and Farage (who simply wants out) resonate far more with the electorate.

It remains to be seen how dim a view the Labour Party machine takes of his public courting of UKIP, but Neil Carmichael, who will fight Stroud for the third successive election for the Conservatives, has a simple message for the local electorate:

Despite spending four years in statewide office, and even after his strong performance in this election against a plausible Republican challenger, Schneiderman remains unknown to much of the electorate and hasn't managed to score the sort of national headlines that were routine for his predecessors.

Questions remain as to how low the limit could be, but Mr. Mpiani said the electorate ought to have the ultimate say as to who should become President.

While Salmond remains extremely popular with the Scottish electorate, the credit crunch has had a serious impact on his arguments for independence.

With benefits and the welfare state such important topics with the electorate, elements of Blue Labour could well satisfy much of the concerns whilst remaining ideologically sound for Miliband et al..

But the fate of John Dramani Mahama contesting the 2020 elections remains on the balance considering recent claimed reports from the Kwesi Botchway report which is said to reveal that Mahama may have flouted some key campaign strategies including the misuse of campaign funds and the inability to relate to the economic woes of the electorate.

It remains to be seen how Blair's time in office would have ended had he not enjoyed a colossal credit balance with the electorate including the highest leader satisfaction ratings of any Prime Minister in polling history.

But rules set then remain in place, with the Commons to be reduced by 50 seats to 600, each with an electorate of between 71,031 and 78,507 — bar four exceptions.

Mr. Rivera's main challenge remains introducing himself to an electorate that is very familiar with Mr. Espada, the founder of a network of health clinics.

This mobilized electorate divides about whether current state senators should remain in office, and nearly half of these voters — 48 % — prefer a new representative in the Assembly.

The reference to Galbraith was another serious point - and that is the question of how much democratic power really remains in the hands of the electorate.

Polling remains poor, and before the Lib Dems reconvene in Glasgow a year from now, the party must face the electorate - twice.

There are 10 % of the electorate voting for other parties, but this would give only 45 % for Remain if all the voters went for that position.

Although equalising the electorates helps the Tories, there remains a residual pro-Labour bias in Britain's political geography, because turnout is significantly lower in Labour seats.

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.

However, one of the biggest worries of the remain camp is that Corbyn has been making speeches to events around the country but failing to transmit Labour's message to the wider electorate.

SIR — Just six years after calling Gillian Duffy a «bigoted woman», Gordon Brown emerges to tell 50 per cent of the electorate that they too are bigoted in their fear of mass immigration if we remain in the EU.

And while his favorability has plummeted with many New York voters, he remains popular with African - American voters — which could boost him in the age of Black Lives Matter and in the increasingly diverse South Carolina electorate.

Although the electorate in Yonkers has shifted and Democrats are in the majority, Aquehung's aim remains to promote Democratic candidates, particularly women candidates, into elected office in Yonkers.

«It is time that the Government recognise that the vote to leave the EU does not give them a blank cheque to do as they wish or to ignore the 48 % of the electorate that voted to remain.

He stressed that the party's founders realised that it was only by fair dealing that the party could remain faithful to the progressive ideals that were presented to the Nigerian electorate as governing creed.

Washington State Senate: The race between Sen. Patty Murray (D) and former state senator Dino Rossi (R) in Washington has been tightening recently, but Murray remains very well liked among the electorate.

Governor Cuomo may no longer be prepared or willing to change things in New York State; whether the electorate will change him in November 2014 at the polls now remains to be seen.

To say the least, it remains highly questionable as to whether the living standards argument will enable Labour to make incursions into the electorate where the party's appeal has so far been rather limited.

Polls show he remains popular among the broader Democratic electorate in New York but he is deeply disliked by an impassioned cohort of liberal activists.

If that's true (I personally doubt it), then the remain vote there in the total electorate will be well north of 70 %.

Team Cameron remain convinced that as recession bites the electorate's appetite for real change will grow.

The latest exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans is intensely political, as he showcases his posters containing pleas to the British electorate to remain in the EU.

Talking, rather than acting, remains a political option because the electorates on which the pols rely for their jobs are not sufficiently threatened by climate change, personally, to make it an issue on which politicians have to act.