Sentences with phrase «for young voters»

Candidates go online for young voters.

We will also filter for young voters in your area who are likely to support gun control legislation.

Theresa May is under pressure to tackle tuition fees after Labour's pledge to scrap them was highlighted as a key issue for young voters.

Born out of his own background as an Evangelical Christian, Snyder established the first ever YDA Faith & Values Initiative in 2011 to provide an opportunity for young voters to make a connection between their faith convictions and their political involvement within the Democratic Party.

They will likely also highlight Clinton's support for debt free college education and gun control, which are both critical issues for young voters.

Social media is growing in importance for younger voters, and it has become the primary way they consume information, political or otherwise, Brewer said.

«Things like that are going to matter if the progressive populism that we need is spoken about in a way that connects to working men and women... Particularly for younger voters — we need their energy, we need their commitment — they need to feel like if they're going to put energy in that it's going to count at the end of the day, and it's not just going to be about TV ads.»

Not exact matches

Enthusiasm for the Democratic Party is waning among young voters as its candidates head into the crucial midterm congressional elections.

For Democrats, who traditionally rely on young voters as a core part of their coalition, the picture isn't much prettier.

For Clinton, never a darling of young voters, this is an uphill battle.

As recently as late June, just 55 % of Sanders voters said they would vote for Clinton; recent polling data shows just 41 % of young voters are supporting Clinton.

He cited low voter turnout in general and among younger voters in particular for control of Congress switching from Democratic to Republican during his presidency.

After a record number of young voters came out in 2008, not nearly as many came out for 2012.

Ilona Dougherty called for political parties to take young voters seriously.

Rockefeller's subsequent divorce of his wife and 1963 marriage to the much - younger Margaretta «Happy» Murphy, a mother of four who had recently divorced her husband, cemented in the minds of many family - minded Americans an unpleasant nexus between loose morals and weak support for the military; it marked the forging of a large wedge of voters that now consciously identified itself as conservative and would grow to include Democrats as well as Republicans.

Now the son is gaining popularity with younger voters by promising to relieve a housing shortage and abolish military draft exemptions for Jewish seminary students.

Fed up with the way Christianity had become so politicized (and polarizing), young Christian voters clamored for change.

While there is no reason to doubt Cameron's sincerity in his support for gay marriage, he also clearly recognises how dangerous this territory is for his party, with any hint of old - fashioned moralism threatening to alienate the younger, more liberally minded voters that he has been so keen to court.

UB40 said in a statement: «Jeremy has re-ignited an interest in politics for people who no longer felt included, and engaged and inspired a new generation of young voters who, for the first time, believe that they have an incorruptible politician who truly represents them.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

Also this week, we ask a group of first time student voters for their perspective — what's been memorable about their first election, why apathy is so prevalent among young people, and is there room for any optimism about the future?

So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:

As a member of Congress, Elise will certainly and immediately be a national spokesperson for the party as Republicans close the gap with women and young voters.

Two cases in point from the Obama side: super.del.egates.us is a wiki - based contact list for voters to use to reach the precious unpledged delegates to the Democratic Convention, while Yrmomma4obama aims to help young voters (and those too young to vote themselves) to use text messages to persuade their friends and family to jump on the Obama bandwagon.

MySpace can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly if you're trying to reach younger voters who have moved away from the casual use of email, but most advice I've seen about using social network sites for political advocacy stresses the importance of moving MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible.

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Younger voters» diagnosis for the year ahead is particularly bleak.

The crucial question is: to what extent do young voters really believe politics can alter their lives for the better?

Even younger voters question Corbyn's ability to deliver this, while for older voters it was nothing more than a poorly - hidden bribe to win the younger vote.

So it makes sense for Mayor Bill de Blasio to call on supporters to help him organize voters over the next few weeks, although it's a little weird he sent one such email to Republican State Senator Catharine Young (R) Olean.

There are many good reasons to scrap tuition fees - but for the Tories to win the support of younger voters, they must prioritise housing

And it CAN be a good for political organizing, if your targets are in populations with high cell - phone and / or Twitter usage (for instance, younger — and plugged - in — urban black and latino voters).

Imagine, for instance, a typical voter profile: in this case, imagine a young female independent who has voted in a given set of elections and lives in a middle class neighborhood.

The medical marijuana campaign could get younger voters out for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist.

But for some of those younger voters, like 29 - year - old Vanessa McCallum, Saturday's decision was difficult down to the final moments, when she had to decide whether to sit on the Sanders or Clinton side of the caucus at Caesar's Palace.

Reach out to your town's young voters with a handwritten call to action: show up in November to Vote For Our Lives.

He will likely struggle in a presidential year, when more minority and younger voters are likely to turn out to vote for Democratic candidates.

An academic study, surveying 5,000 Scottish voters soon after the referendum, found that the majority for No was formed by an «unusual alliance» of the very young, average earners, Protestants and women.

Ed Balls says Labour has been talking to voters about the issues that matter on ITV News: immigration, the NHS and jobs for young people.

Continuing his recent focus on younger voters, Romney said Obama's policies are making it harder for college graduates to be successful.

The group is committed to increasing voter turnout among young people in a bid to drive up support for the Remain campaign ahead of the referendum on June 23.

More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, on Tuesday, September 22, paid a visit to Justice Adzakumah, the 36 - year old young man who lost one of his eyes as a result of police brutality in the September 16 demonstration for a new voters?

The campaign had no phone number for roughly half of younger voters, and it relied heavily on Facebook - driven peer - to - peer outreach to connect with people under 30 (about a million people installed the app, yielding ~ 5 million voter contacts).

Labour was more popular amongst younger voters in 2015 as well and Labour's popularity increased amongst all ages except for those over 70.

For this Mayoral Mashup we spoke with voters at a mayoral candidate forum hosted by the New York Young Republican Club and Maverick PAC, asking one simple question: What do you see as the most important issue that our next mayor will face upon taking office?

Lucas Almonte, legislative director for the CUNY University Student Senate said, «New York's paper - based voter registration system disadvantages young voters, particularly at a place like CUNY where many students do not have a DMV id.

Labour fought an insurgent campaign in which Corbyn deftly exploited his status as the underdog; the Labour party appears to have excited young people as well as so - called «left behind» voters in ways not seen for decades.

In addition, by arranging upfronts with premium publishers and reserving inventory well before Labor Day, the campaign was able to reach younger voters consistently on reserved inventory on Xbox, Hulu, and YouTube, even when ad space was strained for many other advertisers in the final days.

Turnout among minority voters and younger voters could affect the result in a district here or there, but an increase in suburban turnout or a substantial shift by suburban voters (especially suburban women) from the Republicans to the Democrats could have a much broader impact on the fight for control of the House.