Sentences with phrase «from voters about»

Muldrow drew questions from voters about her position on vouchers to fund private schools following the Cap Times candidate forum on Thursday.

She says she has heard concerns from voters about the House Republicans» attempt to defund Planned Parenthood and the threats of a government shutdown.

«As I've petitioned with my volunteers to get on the ballot, I've heard from voters about their priorities and concerns.

An open letter was published by a group called #LibDems4Change urging fellow party members to elect a new leader «who will get a fair hearing from voters about Liberal Democrat achievements and ambitions for the future».

When we received a call from a voter about 45 minutes into the voting day that the location was not handing out ballots, we had an employee on the road that was there in about 5 minutes and then opened up the polling booth,» said Mohr.

Not exact matches

So if a Republican senator mostly hears from GOP constituents, and these constituents are more likely to be really passionate about the issue since they are on the side that opposes stricter laws, that's going to give the senator a skewed perception of where voters are on this topic.

Its report about Facebook covering the period from 2015 to 2017 — a time during which Cambridge Analytica may have tapped Facebook data to create «psychographic» profiles of voters — found that Facebook's privacy controls «were operating with sufficient effectiveness,» according to copies of its reviews obtained through open - records requests by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a watchdog group.

«They say «trust us,» but Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about what Facebook knew about misusing data from 50 million Americans in order to target political advertising and manipulate voters,» Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said in a statement last week.

«They say «trust us,» but Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about what Facebook knew about misusing data from 50 million Americans in order to target political advertising and manipulate voters,» Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said in a statement.

«That is an explicit acknowledgment that this payment was about the election and was about hiding information from voters immediately before the presidential election,» said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a legal claim over the payment.

The central legal question has not changed: When Michael Cohen wired $ 130,000 to Stephanie Clifford, was he trying to prevent Melania from learning about Clifford's allegations or trying to prevent voters in Michigan from hearing these allegations?

I think the issues with the movie extended beyond Twitter; the new voters I've talked to are less enthusiastic about it than the ones you've talked to (New Yorkers, you know), and it sounds like we've both heard from at least some voters who are drawing a bright line between the performances (thumbs up) and the movie (thumbs sideways).

This feedback from the general public gave some indication about the specific issues that would shape the campaign, as the parties jockeyed to garner favour with potential voters.

The suit's claim that Trump knew about the payment and that it was aimed at keeping the affair from voters «confirms what we suspected,» said Paul Ryan, a top lawyer with Common Cause, one of the groups that have lodged complaints with the Federal Election Commission about the payoff.

Canadian and Alberta voters need to understand that every time you get annoyed at Justin Trudeau and the way he manages the country all you need to do is listen to the radio and Charles Adler rant about him or read articles by Lorne Gunter and Rick Bell from the Edmonton Sun (who formerly worked at the Alberta Report, and helped Ted Byfield run the Alberta Report into the ditch, or read anything written by Colby Cosh or Ezra Levant and soon you will realize the propaganda and hate these clowns spread about their own political / religious views trying to scare the general population to their side or views.

Putting aside his mistaken belief that his voters are «Aussie Battlers» - when in fact they are hard - working small business owners and contractors, many of whom receive franked dividends from their business endeavors — it's worth looking at what all the fuss is about... Continue...

But in the years in between, developers of everything from dating apps to voter - outreach tools used by the Obama campaign, capitalized on Facebook's rules to extract massive amounts of data about Facebook users and their friends.

Over two days of testimony before Congress earlier this month, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg dodged a litany of questions from lawmakers about how the data of 87 million Americans ended up in the hands of voter profiling firm Cambridge Analytica.

*********************************** One would hope that voters were casting their ballots on the basis of what they conclude is best for a civil society and a pluralistic population, not on the more egocentric opinions they may have about right or wrong that are derived from their religious beliefs.

In 1998, at the height of the Clinton impeachment battle, evangelical voters were constantly confronting accusations from their secular, leftist friends that «it was all politics,» that evangelicals were less concerned with Bill Clinton's indiscretions than they were about his party identification.

Constantly concerned about alienating the southern wing of the Democratic Party, the Kennedys sought to channel the movement away from attacks on state segregation statutes, which, they claimed, were local conflicts in which federal authorities were powerless to intervene, and into voter registration efforts in which the national state could be of assistance.

Selma, director Ava Duvernay's film about the 1965 Voters» Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, has been touted as the best film of the year, thanks in no small...

But both parties saw sharp increases in the number of voters who want to hear less about religion from politicians.

The decline in political activity proved true for every category, from preaching a sermon on a public policy issue (1 % did so in 2016, down from 37 % in 2014) to distributing voter guides (36 %, down from 45 %) to speaking to the congregation about the importance of voting (62 %, down from 78 %).

By giving Adenauer's party and its allies a narrow majority, the voters ratified his vision of Germany's future, one that drew deeply from Christian, and especially Catholic, thought about the challenges facing modern society.

It's really unfortunate that voters in the South — and Evangelical voters in particular — continue to get their ideas about Mormons from gossip and hearsay.

Hancock has stated that the voters will start from scratch for each poll, ignoring their past selections in order to avoid the heavy emphasis on preseason expectations in ranking teams after games have actually been played, so nothing about any edition of the Playoff selection committee top 25 should have an effect on later results.

Cynthia Samuels recently posted about a group called Election Protection that will work to protect people from voter suppression on election day.

As you might recall, Crowley was less than forthcoming earlier this week when asked by reporters about Lancman's claim the party is trying to siphon Jewish voters away from him by running Gottlieb — a late add to the NY - 6 field who has well - documented (thanks to Chris Bragg) ties to Meng and also (oddly) certain elements of the Queens GOP.

Besides this fear of crossover voters «stealing» the primary away from people who actually are in the party, one bonus purported from here is that a closed primary tends to let candidates talk more openly about their views during the primary since they are largely just speaking to their base.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

But it says something about where their support springs from that the biggest danger they face on the doorstep is from voters who share their views.

Expect furious spates of last - minute campaigning from all the candidates, who are trying desperately to let voters know about the court - ordered, earlier - than - usual elections.

Another consideration: just about any campaign can also benefit from having a body of clear, topical and targeted content on published on the web in a variety of outlets, since voters, bloggers and journalists alike will be turning to Google and other search engines for basic information about races and candidates.

Imagine having to go to a voter face - to - face, get an e-signature from that person allowing you to hold information about him or her and then having to follow up that contact with an email confirmation from them that they agreed to this.

When Zephyr Teachout looked at the Republican candidates» sites from the point of view of an undecided voter a few weeks ago, she pointed out how few made it easy to find basic information about why someone SHOULD support the candidate.

Imagine a scenario in which you needed to have a confirmed, double opt - in from a voter to hold any information about that person.

Regardless of their size, though, just about any campaign can also benefit from having a body of clear, topical and targeted content on the web in a variety of outlets, since voters, bloggers and journalists alike will be turning to Mr. Google for basic information about local races.

The number of voters who don't know enough to form an opinion about the GOP trio ranges from 76 percent (for Turner, who has made name recognition — at least in NYC — a key argument of why he's the best candidate to face off against Gillibrand) to 84 percent (Maragos and Long).

During this deadlock, Sturgeon has nothing to gain from pro-UK voters thinking about another referendum.

Two weeks later, I read this piece in Salon about the race to succeed Duke Cunningham in California: seeing a deficit in absentee voters, «Republican activists «poured» into the district and searched a Republican Party database that could tell them everything about voters from their personal hobbies and professional interests to the brand of toothpaste they're likely to use.

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.

Regardless, it was clear from our panel of undecided voters that contrary to expectations, the public are interested in the EU debate and they are eager to participate in debates about complex issues.

From weird to mysterious: just this week we also found out about ghost voter data posted on an IP number that's since been taken down.

Mr. Dzakpasu explained that the perception emanates from the low education of voters about the commission and electoral processes.

Expect endless stories about the Conservative leadership — articles which arguably distract from what the Tories will be getting up to in their first majority government in many young voters» lives.

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

Flint compared herself to the hugely outnumbered band of Spartans in the film 300 when talking about the onslaught from Ukip - turned - Tory voters that she and others like Gloria de Piero and even Dennis Skinner faced.

Borrowing a page from Clinton's 1999 «listening tour» — held as she prepared for a Senate candidacy — Buffalo mayoral candidature Mark Schroeder is staging a series of events in city neighborhoods, none downtown, to gauge feedback from voters and bolster his claims that incumbent Mayor Byron Brown cares only about downtown.

For instance, Canada's premier made the same observations about voters being cut off from the elite in leadership.