Sentences with phrase «even get to a polling»

«Could ridesharing mitigate voter suppression where marginalized communities have lost the full protection of the Voting Rights Act and find it hard to even get to a polling booth,» Sasjkia Otto thought.

This happened TWICE before I even got to the poll site.

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While Chinese banks tend to front - load loans early in the year to get higher - quality customers and win market share, the lofty figure was even higher than the most bullish forecast by economists in a Reuters poll.

Even the Right who don't consider those traits to be a deal breakers should ask themselves how far she'd have gotten in the polls if she looked like Phyllis Schlafly.

The main goal of the Democratic party's field organizing is to get their supporters off their butts and to the polls, either on Election Day or (even better) beforehand — absentee ballots are field - organizing gold, since every early ballot in the bank represents a voter who WO N'T need to be hassled in person or over the phone before November 4th.

Even in London where there were no other elections apart from the AV referendum, over a third of voters managed to get out of bed and make it to the polling booths.

On a recent evening in the small basement office of the Alexandria Democratic Committee, Bob Mack and his team of McAuliffe volunteers crafted a plan for the nine weeks remaining until Election Day: focus on known Democratic voters — and get them to the polls.

Union, WFP and Democratic leaders have been trying to no avail to get Padernacht out of the race, even going so far as to have the New Roosevelt Initiative commissioned a poll that showed Espada was far more likely to hold onto his seat if he faced two challengers rather than just one.

So even if all you can do is to get a few friends to show up at the polls, their presence may be decisive.

A poll, released yesterday, showed a slight slip in her already - strong approval ratings and, even more significantly, her campaign recently attempted to use legal pressure to get television stations to pull a negative ad against her, generating flurry of free press coverage for her opponents.

We have been approaching this very scientifically; we have been doing our own scientific polling and even some of the polling being done by independent people, the numbers are looking great and so I am confident that from what is being done scientifically, plus or minus any margin of error, we will make 50 % plus... «We are looking at issues of concern to people in different regions and so the campaign message is tailored to address the concerns we find in any particular region and the response we have got is very enthusiastic.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

«A lot of people didn't want to go to their new poll site and names weren't found in the book, but I made it a point during my campaign to inform people of their new poll site to the best of my ability even though we didn't get the new list until 4 days before the election.»

Even in wartime governments have managed to get more people to the polls with half the population under arms or overseas.

Attributing the achievements of President Mahama to his commitment to get things done even in difficult situations; Kofi Adams said the remarkable feat the president has chalked within just three years in office will certainly result in victory in this year's polls.

It is very rare, even when it gets close, it would be very, very rare occurrence indeed for somebody who has led in every opinion poll in recent weeks not to win.»

It stunned observers and even prompted a new approach from Tory strategists, who hoped the thought of Gordon Brown remaining in No 10 for another five years would startle voters enough for them to get down to the polling station.

Republicans, even those uneasy about a Trump nomination, have noted the first - time candidate has shown a knack for getting new voters out to the polls in the primary races.

Even though some believe that the polls, having got the 2015 election and 2016 Brexit results wrong, are overstating Labour's figure by predicting a hung parliament, those polls still point to the Conservatives having the most seats.

It's time to hit the pavement, make the phone calls, get our friends and families to the polls, and even contribute just $ 25 or $ 50 to help Kirsten win this.»

The governor today reiterated the vow to help get members of his own party elected to the Senate even as he pointed to poll data showing one of the Democratic conference's chief goals — taxpayer - financed elections — is unpopular among New Yorkers.

Former IDC leader and now Deputy Democratic Leader Jeff Klein says voters offered many different reasons for why they find it difficult to get to the polls, like an inability to find child care, or having to work late, or not even knowing that an election was taking place.

Jeff Klein, the former IDC leader who now is deputy Democratic leader, said voters offered many reasons for why they find it difficult to get to the polls, such as an inability to find child care, having to work late, or not even knowing that an election was taking place.

When a kid gets concussed, the instinct of many parents, myself included, is to cocoon their child, limiting social interaction, activity and even sleep, a recent poll conducted by researchers at UCLA suggests.

I even did a facebook poll to get some help in deciding - Red actually won out but was vetoed based on the fact that the room is small and the red would completely take over!

Critics polls confirm Gus Van Sant's The Sea Of Trees as one of the most despised films to compete for the Palme, while Jia Zhang - ke and Pixar get ambitious even by their respective standards.

Get to know your fans even better by polling them on their likes, dislikes, and opinions on your ideas for books or promotions.

The poll also found that 77 percent of kids want to attend a university in the future, but half of them worried about getting a job later in life even if they get a degree.

Even if dozens of party primaries don't get your blood pressure up, there's one compelling ballot item that should drive you to the polls today: For the first time since 1989, Miamians have a chance to strike down one of the nation's dumbest laws.

The point of all this is that there's even more evidence now — as Climate Progress puts it, «pretty much every major poll in the past six months makes clear that the public supports climate and energy legislation because it achieves multiple benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions» — that people want to get away from fossil fuels and move towards clean energy.

Even if the Conservatives managed to get the proposal into law, it would carry no consequence for breaking it, much like the Conservative government's fixed election date law, which Harper broke by going to the polls early, in 2008, by retroactively claiming the law wasn't meant to apply to minority governments.

The poll itself is not super exciting, as anyone with even the slightest interest in Android will tell you that the closer to stock you get, the more users like it.

A 2015 Gallup poll found that just 19 percent of those surveyed believed that abortion should be illegal under all circumstances, but in March, Trump's assertion during an MSNBC town hall event that women who get illegal abortions should be subject to some kind of penalty shocked even some conservatives.