Sentences with phrase «floating voters»

As the loss of safe seats is rare, parties target resources on a small number of floating voters in marginal seats.

There is reasoning with the huge pool of floating voters in the middle ground who care about taxes and schools and crime.

But for floating voters such as myself these changes in approach are the reason that I will vote Conservative in 2010 for the first time since 1993.

Next, we'll assume that a small number of floating voters switch directly from blue to red, which is not unreasonable given the painful decisions the Coalition has had to make.

Many may dismiss this out of hand, but many many times floating voters have told me they would.

Panellists were drawn from floating voters who didn't vote Tory in 2005, and were shown silent film of three of the candidates, in a technique apparently drawn from US pollsters.

Neither Burnham nor Cooper could win floating voters.

The party needs to win over floating voters in a number of key marginal seats in towns and cities in the North and the Midlands.

New poster: It is the image which the Tories hope will scare floating voters into their arms — the prospect of Nicola Sturgeon forcing Ed Miliband to implement her radical policies

These seek to attract floating voters, shore up core votes and woo potential coalition partners, all at the same time.

According to her, democracy is about choices hence instead of npp supporters insulting floating voters like herself who have decided to vote for president Mahama in this election they should sell their candidate since that might convince some people to vote for him.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur has directed the rank and file of the NDC to target floating voters during the party's campaign and not concentrate two much on members and supporters.

«People will be pointing out the contrast between a man who can persuade floating voters, ordinary human beings, that the Conservative brand isn't toxic and a man who can't - ie the prime minister.

How much media will he do when the Tories» own polling suggests he's toxic with floating voters?

It is the image which the Tories hope will scare floating voters into their arms — the prospect of Nicola Sturgeon forcing Ed Miliband to implement her radical policies.

Election - winning appeal: His problem is that trying to appeal to party members and floating voters at once produces muddle.

Endean, who is standing for Ukip in Plymouth, retweeted an image of rescued migrants with the caption: «Labour's new floating voters.

Tony Blair was very good at reminding floating voters of what Labour stood for, something that Gordon Brown has not.

Almost all controversial Government plans have been stripped out of the monarch's address to the House of Lords so as not to risk upsetting floating voters ahead of the June 23 referendum.

Blair also pandered to the mythical floating voter, while alienating that core support.

And - theory recognises that there can be no choice between shoring up the core vote and chasing floating voters, we need both in order to gain a working majority.

Labour campaigners in marginals up and down the country have confirmed to politics.co.uk they are struggling to match the sheer volume of literature being pushed through floating voters by Tory activists.

It had this status when the Liberal Democrats were in government during the coalition years, but now that the latter party has gone into opposition it is once again attracting disgruntled floating voters, but also «Remoaners» who do not accept the decision of the referendum.

For the Conservatives and Labour alike, neither their values nor their brand are clear and consistent, so floating voters are failing to be won over.

It's irritating, he explained to the Lib Dem floating voter, having a Tory council.

I'm still baffled why the NPP do not realize, that the only way to win an election in Ghana is to turn the few floating voters to their side and even make efforts to get some usually NDC voters to make an exception for a particular year and decide to vote for Nana.

Debi Waite, the panel's «Asda mum» and self - confessed floating voter, expressed her frustration with #Newmarkgate.

Are we doing enough to convince the vast floating voter constituency?»

I can't help seeing Balls as a great comic creation, who as Labour's leader would enthuse its core supporters and repeal floating voters.

But you grasp the main point: let floating voters know that their incomes, jobs and mortgages are safe in your hands.

At a time when the parties are carefully stage managed and when leaders only refer to party members when they are «running against them» to court floating voters there has to be a way for party supporters to have their voices heard.

The reaction to floating voter Robert Hughes is typical and a splendid demonstration of a big reason we lost three elections.

(b) has already «decontaminated» the brand so that people (e.g. Floating Voters, LibDem voters etc) just do not see as credible any attempt to paint him as a Waving Wight Winger.

It would be simplistic to label this as a town v country issue, but Tory activists in the countryside are likely go one way and urban floating voters the other.

It distresses our core supporters and fails to convince floating voters.

Toby's evident knowledge as to how to get floating voters to vote Labour is becoming a rare commodity in the Labour Party.

Most floating voters — the people who decide elections — dislike extremism, but otherwise shun ideology.

As well as voting intention there is a huge amount of stuff on messages, what would make floating voters switch, what drives peoples votes and so on — plus three articles by me on what I think the strategic lessons for each party should be.

All evidence shows that the public [and floating voters] like Clarke.

«For many floating voters I find that mind control does the trick.

The poll, conducted among more than 1,500 people who have voted Labour at least once since 1992, found that David Miliband was also the most likely of the five Labour leadership candidates to win over floating voters and those people who backed Labour in 2005 but switched to the Liberal Democrats or Conservative Party this year.

This would have broken the stranglehold of floating voters in Middle England marginals over the political centre of gravity, and would have rewarded Labour for mobilising support in its working - class heartland seats.

Given the demands of City life, many lawyers are likely to be placing their votes close to this evening's deadline, and, as such, there is still time for floating voters to weigh up their options.

The chairman added that as part of plans to attract floating voters to the party, a team will be constituted to constantly update inhabitants of the region on the development projects of the Mahama - led administration.

They have to work out what to do about disillusioned Liberal Democrat voters at the same time, as well as keeping up with the high volatility of floating voters.

Floating voters will be turned off by Santorum's ridiculous stupidity, so his candidacy may hand Obama a second term.

I tend to think that the decision facing the Tories is a rather straightforward one, and it essentially consists of not trying to face two ways at once - do you secure your base, who really are losing faith (simple longing for power is all that seems to be keeping the ship afloat for the time being), or do you keep on flirting with LibDem / floating voters and hope that gets you over the line?

The Floating Voters who decided the 2016 Victory are keenly watching the conduct of NPP against 2020 general election.