Sentences with phrase «electorate who»

«To the best of my knowledge, information and belief, the Plaintiff [Dominic Ayine] brought this action in his name fronting for the immediate past Government to set at naught the popular wishes of the majority of the Ghanaian electorate who see the President's acceptance of the nomination of the 2nd Defendant [Martin Amidu] as Special Prosecutor, as being in the national interest to attack the canker of corruption in the body politic,» Martin Amidu indicated in his affidavit verification sighted by Citi News.

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

After all, if one goes back to 1951, just 3 % of the electorate who turned out did not vote Conservative or Labour.

«The strength of Engineer Seyi Makinde lies with his strong connection With the people / Electorate who are desirous of new face that they can easily identify with and they strongly believe he has it requires in terms of exposure, Education, international contacts that could bring international investors and industry to stem the growth of unemployment that has reached it ugly head in the state».

«We need someone like Adriano who can bring out new sectors of the electorate who haven't participated or who haven't felt passionate about politics, young people, new arrivals, non-English speakers.»

Coalition government can be a good thing, but they must reflect the will of the electorate who must be able to appropriately reward and punish both big and small parties for their performance.

That's happened because Ed's recent victory surprised many, not least his brother and his brother's supporters, and some of Ed's people see a need to spin away the role played in Ed's victory by the two - thirds of the electorate who voted as union members, hence the suggestion that Labour «supporters» be added in some way to the electorate.

Suggestions that Corbyn could boost Labour's chances by invigorating the third of the electorate who do not bother to turn out are also optimistic.

That's the proportion of the electorate who says Paterson should not run next year.

«Sometimes the supporters of the parties outside the agreement decry it as «undemocratic»» - what about the electorate who may feel cheated that they were not able to vote for their preferred candidate / party due to the artificial lack of choice in candidates?

Progressives saw Macrons victory defeat populism, rather than the third of the electorate who supported Le Pen.

Rather, it is the electorate who are reached out.

No you're wrong on that one, because the EPP debate is largely an internal one mainly ignored outside of the party and we do already talk about Education and Health more than enough to start to persuade an electorate who can see that Labour have failed them in these areas.

In summary, the proportion of the electorate who are satisfied both with a leader and with their party may be a useful supplement to other predictors of electoral outcomes.

Using the Ipsos MORI polls since 2010, I calculated the percentage of the electorate who both support a party and are satisfied with its leader (and also the percentage who are satisfied with the leader but don't support that party).

I totally agree, Labour have for far too long abandoned any Socialist principles and drifted further to the middle ground, they have offered nothing to the alienated working class electorate who have, in my opinion, voted UKIP in droves.

That said, the election showed that there are still parts of the electorate who viscerally hate the Tory Party.

The answer is to persuade the 40 % of the electorate who have currently «given up» not to sit on their hands and abstain from voting — but to vote for the minor parties — if we can persuade enough to do this, then PR and real change will inevitably follow.

The Conservatives couldn't get a full majority with an electorate who had yet to feel a single Tory cut, and against a deeply unpopular Gordon Brown.

What all this suggests is that there are around 13 % of the national electorate who could be persuaded to vote for Ukip.

He adds: «There is a disconnect with what is going on in the Labour Party and in the minds of many Labour Party members and in the heads of the electorate who are not engaged in this at all and who are onlookers, often bewildered sometimes bemused and sometimes contemptuous....

It reflects the anxieties and uncertainties of an American electorate who aren't happy with what they've got but also aren't sure about the alternatives.

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.

The fact that she did not stop to speak to a single patron or worker is not lost on the Hispanic electorate who wants to get to know her better but has found her reluctant to reveal her more human qualities, preferring instead to deliver carefully rehearsed platitudes.

In all of this, we must NOT forget the 38 percent of the electorate who decided to vote against this proposal in the teeth of this emotive onslaught, especially those who changed their minds (21 percent).

It would seem that these politicians are not concerned with serving the electorates who pay them their salaries.

#LagosVotes: There seems to be no better way to exercise patience ahead of collation as some electorates who just voted could be seen at Council bus stop, along Ikotun Idimu axis reading newspapers.

Already, the governor has disappointed a chunk of the electorates who believed that, Akeredolu, on assumption of office would expose the alleged many sharp practices of former governor, Mimiko while in government.

However, that target needs to be translated into effective policies at national levels and that will require solid support among electorates who do not understand how solid the underlying scientific consensus is.

Not exact matches

«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.

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

In 2004 fully 25 percent of the US electorate consisted of persuadable partisans, Democrats or Republicans who might be lured to vote for the other side, according to figures from political scientists D. Sunshine Hillygus and Todd Shields.

Though this approach, they built an image that was acceptable to partisans (who could be relied upon to trust implicitly that whatever they were doing was good for a reason) but also induced suspicion in the broader electorate.

Sanders» campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, told reporters on Friday night that the campaign had also reached out to black voters in Nevada, who accounted for about 15 percent of the caucus electorate in 2008.

«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.

Canada's millennials (born between 1983 and 1999; aged 18 to 34 as of 2017) are the generation that grew up in an era of a rising Asia and who will form the largest block of the electorate in the 2019 Canadian federal election.

However, such esoteric hipster knowledge (esoteric, if only because it played on inside knowledge that was common knowledge and what everyone knew merely 15 years ago or so) comes across as mere pandering to an electorate of Gen Xers who in their indecisiveness are at best a vote on the margins — at least in terms of their actual numbers.

«Power is where power goes,» Johnson liked to say, and in a republic this means that men who wish to attract the power of the electorate and its representatives need to work the hardest to chart a path around the fears and interests of the multitude.

Washington (CNN)- Half of the people who identify with the tea party in a new poll reject the science of global warming (50 %) and evolution (51 %), sentiments that some observers believe portray an increasingly religious electorate that mimics some GOP presidential hopefuls.

Experts who follow the intersection of religion and politics say this year's crop of Republican candidates reflects the changing electorate, the lasting significance of a Supreme Court decision, and shifting forces within American Christianity.

The virtue of socialism, it is argued, is that it does away with such irresponsible authority, and forces those who make economic policy to appeal to the electorate and to justify their decisions in terms of the public good.

Conservative xians are squirming and telling «unfair» because the US electorate Is turning against the imposition of their religious beliefs through laws affecting people who do not share those beliefs.

George Thomas in his book Christian Indians and Indian Nationalism, gives the story of how K.T.Paul and S.K.Datta of the Indian YMCA who represented Protestants at the Round Table Conference in London, took a determined stand against turning Indian Christians into a communal political entity by Britain imposing on them communal representation, communal electorate and other communal safeguards.

The Republican primary electorate rejected candidates who could have been credible, but who failed to put in the work to master national - level issues (Bachmann and Perry.)

While polls showed him at the back of a seven - person pack just weeks before January's first - in - the - nation Iowa caucuses, Santorum won a plurality of Iowa evangelicals, who accounted for nearly 60 % of the electorate.

In fact the preservation of carols was largely down to a few individuals, such as Davies Gilbert MP, who appealed to his electorate to send him carols they remembered, and Bishop Edward Benson who started the Nine Lessons and Carols service to lure drunks out of pubs and into churches on Christmas Eve.

These Americans (who are becoming a larger fraction of the electorate every year) have a particularly skewed view of our political debate.

He was a governor who, facing divided government and a Democratic - leaning electorate, managed to produce a more or less sustainable budget (overwhelmingly through spending cuts) while maintaining core government services.

Indeed, those who self - identify as evangelical made up either a majority or plurality of the Republican - leaning electorate in every Super Tuesday state except Massachusetts.

Lindsay says that the motherhood angle could be refreshing to evangelical voters, who constitute a majority of the Republican electorate in early states like Iowa and South Carolina.