Sentences with phrase «electorate thinks»

Not that JuLIAR the Claytons PM until November 2013 has the slightest interest in what the electorate thinks.

67 % of the electorate thinks the way things are done in Albany need major changes.

66 % of the state's electorate thinks Cuomo is doing either an excellent or good job in office while just 6 % say he is performing poorly.

64 % of the electorate think Cuomo is doing either an excellent or good job in office.

Promising a second referendum to stay or go when the Brexit draft deal sets out the genuine choice isn't electrifying an electorate thinking about the NHS and living standards, Corbyn's credibility and Mayhem.

As for CLPs nominating him, yes they're all in areas where labour does well already the Midlands inner London, the right of the party being burnt out after 20 years, but it's not the CLPs it's the voters in the street, how many CLPs nominating people, know what their electorate think, as for Dan Hodges, whatever you think of him, can you deny he believes what he says about labour being massacred if corbyn took us into the 2020 election.

The Marist Poll reported in March that 62 % of the electorate thought Cuomo should be their party's nominee compared with 26 % for Paterson.

Changing too often will make the electorate think twice before voting for us.

Interactive map: View the Vote Compass data by location to see what voters in every electorate think about the big issues.

Having outsourced most government activity, they're now outsourcing politics itself, handing over the job of convincing the electorate to psychologists and advertisers — the same people who for decades have been telling the government what the electorate think.

Not exact matches

But the narrative that the electorate is pushing elected officials towards trade - skeptical policies doesn't actually jive with poll numbers, which show that a majority of Americans think that increased trade is good for the economy.

This year's elections will reflect some big demographic changes in the American electorate — and we think those changes will shape the GOP presidential ticket more than the Democratic one.

«For a politician who doesn't want to admit that the electorate sent a message that they don't like politicians, it's far easier to scapegoat it on economic issues than it is to address the fundamental question: that there are voters in this country who no longer think their representatives represent them,» said a Democratic strategist involved in 2016.

The Democratic gubernatorial primary is so competitive this year, The Sun's Erin Cox reports, that campaigns and strategists think they may need the support of no more than a quarter of the electorate to win — maybe as few as 125,000 votes.

Mormon church is just using her to help Romney, but don't think the electorate can see through this.

That's true, but I also think Walker has a chance to be the Tea Party - friendly alterative to Chris Christie if Ted Cruz collapses and Rand Paul fails to get much support outside of the ten percent of the Republican nominating electorate that was open to voting for his father.

I think the blame lies more within Republican Party elites, the center - right electorate, and plain old bad luck than with the nominating system.

I doubt he is as religious as he makes it out to be; I think he is just pandering to that segment of the electorate.

The thinking seems to be that since Republicans are having trouble with the growing, nonwhite fraction of the electorate, they should nominate Rubio because he is the «The Latino Republican version of Obama / Kennedy — he inspires, he's handsome, and what's not to like?»

You might have thought that this was an obvious point, given that woman make up half of the electorate.

With a three - day weekend behind us, the markets not behaving insanely (at least, not at the exact moment I'm writing) and the American electorate (unbelievably) apparently preparing to make what I think is the right choice, let's take advantage of a brief lull in consulting work (next big project's fixin'to start) to get caught up on the online politics world again.

We need to recognise we have a different electorate and to recognise we became too authoritarian in the way we thought about the state, too casual in the way we thought about the state.

why he thinks we should have promised heaven as the Npp did to daze the electorate.

These electioneering sound bites are meant to unite and excite the electorate, and are thought of as temporary, but in fact they leave significant, lasting, and harmful negative attitudes in the minds of the electorate on various domestic and global issues.

Politicians still seem to think of the electorate as children who need to be controlled and patronised.

All governments are guilty of this practice and the electorate only remembers who brought it in, not who first thought of it.

With the electorate increasingly consulted directly on a broad range of issues you would be forgiven for thinking that the use of the referendum had brought about a golden age of democracy.

Nonetheless, I think if Cameron and Clegg were being honest with the electorate about what they're trying to do, Glover's got it about right.

I don't think that's right - yet - although clearly it wouldn't take much to flip the electorate in that direction given the closeness of the actual referendum..

As I've written before here, the electorate was thinking of the kicking the politicians rather than guarding their wallets.

«I think he has touched a part of our electorate that doesn't like where our country is,» Pollard said.

«Really the SNP thing is just so boring that I think the electorate will go cross eyed if the Conservative's keep it up too long.»

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.

If we take the average position of the general population on a scale ranging from (0) European Unification has gone too far, to (10) European Unification has not gone far enough, we find that the average position of the electorate is closest to the Conservative Party (measured by where survey respondents think the major parties» policies are on the same scale).

Labour leaders since Attlee had long since ceased to take Clause IV seriously: they just thought abolition would generate more trouble among Labour supporters than the benefits to be gained at electioins since many in the electorate didn't know what Clause IV was until reminded.

The politicians seem to be unable to move away from grand gestures which they think will impress the electorate rather than consider the fundamentals of what makes the kind of education system that the public wants - good local schools in every neighbourhood.

Thinking of pensions as something more akin to public goods such as education or infrastructure — where what you pay in and what you get out are basically uncorrelated — will be a tough sell to the electorate and will take a lot of political capital.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

The seat was taken by Liberal Democrat Stephen Williams with a large majority, thought to have been aided by the large student electorate, hostile to Labour's top - up fees policy.

Labour wants a referendum on Lords reform, and Tory rebels are supporting that because they think it will lead to the electorate blocking the proposals.

It's not that high, and in a primary electorate in New York state that is far more demographically attuned to «60 Minutes» more than «Sex and the City,» I wouldn't think that Nixon or the characters she has played have the kind of broad recognition one would need to run in New York state,» he said.

The Lib Dems had begun months before to think seriously about participating in a coalition if the electorate gave no one party an overall majority, and Cameron and Osborne had ruthlessly done a constituency audit and come to the conclusion that it was highly unlikely they could form a single - party government.

Mr Blair continued: «Even though, for understandable reasons, there may be parts of the electorate that don't trust me any more, actually I have always trusted the people in the sense that I think they take a very sensible view of things in the end.»

In particular it will say whether Labour's members are thinking more about internal party politics or the feeling of the wider electorate.

Mr. Langley states: «I think (an appointment) equates to avoiding the electorate and I'm not in favor of that.»

«Half the electorate is really not happy at this point with the president's leadership, and so that doesn't provide members of the House with much of a basis for thinking there will be coattails for them to ride on,» said James E. Campbell, a professor of political science at the State University at Buffalo.

Unfortunately they have failed because the electorate simply does not believe Clegg; they think he can not be trusted because he changed his mind on economic strategy prior to the general election yet continued making arguments which ran counter to this change.

The temptation is to claim that the original ICM and You Gov polls were rogues, but I think it might be more reflective of how unsure the electorate is at the moment.

«It was at -3 (degrees) Saturday morning so I think it just shows you the energy and excitement and enthusiasm that there is for our Republican electorate going forward,» ECRC Chairman Nick Langworthy said.

Clive Efford, another former frontbencher, said: «Search inside yourself and ask if the electorate really think you're a Prime Minister in waiting, because I don't think you are.»