Sentences with phrase «enough swing voters»

The mainstream green groups, these lefties argue, spent way too much time compromising with fossil - fuel interests in order to craft a byzantine cap - and - trade proposal that could placate enough swing voters in Congress.

David Cameron believes we failed to win a majority because we didn't reassure enough swing voters (and not because the core vote was marginalised)

That means that any candidate that wins their support must seem to have a plausible chance to win over enough swing voters to win the presidential election.

Not exact matches

So in each state, there were more than enough Stein voters to swing the result, just like Ralph Nader did in Florida and New Hampshire in 2000.»

The challenge is to prevent last - minute lies that could sway enough voters to swing an election result — which, in the United States, can be a matter only of thousands or even hundreds of votes.

Ryan was seen as enough of a conviction politician for the party's conservatives, but a sufficiently friendly face so as not to scare swing - voters.

For those fortunate enough to live in a competitive electoral context such as a swing state, the sheer size of the electorate renders the possibility of one voter being the deciding factor statistically infinitesimal.

Whether Clegg did enough in round one to swing undecided voters is more difficult to gauge.

That may be a narrow enough margin to swing the other way once absentee ballots are counted, but it appears that Constable's promise to keep the town clerk's office open late one evening a week may have resonated with busy voters.

Enough Rockland County voters voted NO on Vanderhoef to keep him as County Exec and swing the election to Carlucci.

The reason the party did not win a majority, he said, was because not enough people trusted the party with their vote and that more reassurance needed to be given to swing voters so that they could vote Conservative with confidence and without fear.

Harriet Harman is, interestingly enough, the only candidate whose figures contrast strongly between the public and a whole and swing voters.