Sentences with phrase «gaining more voters»

As such, it is likely that the center - right candidate from Forza Italia, Paolo Romani, is elected due to the alliance gaining more voters than the Five Star Movement back on the March 4 vote.

Demagogic policies, How many times we have seen politicians saying things like «the wealthy are guilty of the people poverty», or talking about the 2013 US fiscal Cliff agreement «the wealthy have to pay more taxes to finance the people health services», for me those are populist and demagogic tactics to gain more voters, because they know that the democracy is controlled by the mob.

«For every funder we lose, we'll gain more voters.

Not exact matches

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

Mr. Byfield has been campaigning for more than a year and could make gains if he is able to tap into the base of social conservative voters in this constituency.

The conservative health care message most of these voters have heard can be summarized as «socialized medicine is bad + tort reform is good + so anyway, back to more important things like capital gains tax cuts.»

Jay Jaffe now describes Morris as «a virtual lock»; he's real close now, and there's definitely a bandwagon effect as candidates who get close c) gain more attention, and d) elicit sympathy from voters who don't want to be the one to keep a guy out.

Alas, Britain's parliamentarians are myopically obsessed with whether one party or another stands to gain or lose from boundary changes, forgetting the far more important question: which system gives voters a sense of connection with their representatives and makes those representatives more likely to work hard in their constituents» interests.

You say yourself that «Nobody knows for sure would gain or lose as voters and parties adapt to a more open system.»

Arguably, issues of democracy and self - government gain currency when they are tied to a compelling ideological vision, as happened with the recent independence referendum in Scotland that mobilised thousands of people, including a large a swathe of new voters, in support of political autonomy not as an end in itself, but to create a more just and equal society.

Indeed, Labour gained some seats without even canvassing last year, such was the level of enthusiasm among voters based on little more than viral Facebook videos and a pledge to build a fairer Britain.

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.

While they lost ground in seats with high concentrations of working - class voters, or those with no cars and poor health, they gained 2 percentage points or more in English and Welsh seats with the highest concentrations of middle - class professionals, car owners and those in good health.

The British Election Study found that Labour gained more Leave voters from other parties than it lost to the Tories, including 18 percent of 2015 Ukip voters - a proportion that must have been lower in safe Tory seats, but correspondingly higher in the safe Labour heartlands where scooping up Ukip voters was the Tories» entire strategy for success.

«It makes it a tough issue for him to gain traction on,» says Greenberg, who says voters are more geared up about topics like education, taxes and the economy.

The poll showed 26 % said the PM was in touch with the lives of ordinary voters, and 63 % believed legalising gay marriage would cost the party more votes than it gains.

It was mentally insane to keep her as leader that after she lost 63 seats and even more so now as she not only had minimal gains this time but she's probably going to lose seats again next time because you won't have African American and Latino voters coming out to vote in such large numbers which was Obama true assets, racial identity politics (not criticizing it, just saying he did it well).

Democrats are optimistic they could gain a full majority this fall in part because of the presidential election bringing more Democratic voters to the polls and aiding down - ballot races along the way.

Democrats in particular are confident they will make gains in next year's legislative races in part due to it being a presidential election year, which will typically draw out more Democratic voters in New York.

The challenge for either Long or Carvin will be to quickly gain recognition with the state's voters, and define themselves before Gillibrand's team paint them more darkly for voters.

He said, «There is the need to educate voters that they lose more than they gain when they collect money to vote.

In order to gain more seats at Westminster under AV the Lib Dems would need to have enough candidates who are the natural first preference of enough voters to benefit from AV.

Quinn, who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor last year, has emerged as the point person for the Women's Equality Party, a ballot line Gov. Andrew Cuomo created this year as a way of promoting the women's agenda as well as to gain more women voters.

«Our opponent's attempt to distract the voters from the real issues is nothing more than a last - ditch effort to gain traction before Election Day.»

What more would left - wing voters gain by voting for Labour?

But as Sanders has gained steam, largely on the support of younger and more liberal voters, Senate Democrats have stepped up their attacks, saying Sanders is not ready to be commander in chief, criticizing his democratic socialist views and contending that his domestic agenda has little chance of ever becoming law.

What's more, if Republican primary voters continue to nominate paleo - conservatives over mainstream candidates, the general electorate might well decide to let Democrats gain seats.

Labour gained strongly among younger, more affluent urban voters while the Conservatives reached working - class voters who had never supported them before.

Lib Dems honour Coalition while Tories have more to gain - Anthony Wells reveals what voters think (Comments: 7)

Look at the London local elections in 2006, the turnout was so low that many Conservatives, Lib Dems, and even Greens and BNP people were elected; a feat which wasn't repeated in 2010 when Labour voters for the General election took part in the local elections, letting Labour gain many more seats despite being less popular nationally than in 2006.

«Republican candidates have even more to gain by taking green positions on climate,» the study said, because they may attract Independents as well as woo Democratic voters in general elections, especially if their Democratic opponents remain silent on climate.

I am convinced that the only reason this film isn't gaining more attention during awards season is because the voters aren't taking the time to watch it.

Graduation rates have risen — from 52 percent in 2010 to 66 percent in 2014 — and voters saw enough other gains to approve a tax levy in November to fund the plan for four more years.

«It is written to serve the needs and desires of the charter school movement and the predators and profiteers that have unapologetically gained from this experiment,» The Tribune said, «not the people, parents, students, voters and taxpayers of school systems that have been decimated by a so - called reform movement that has done far more harm than good.»

However, bitcoin prices went on to lose some of these gains, plunging more than 10 % on 21st June after a poll conducted by market research firm Survation showed 45 % of voters wanted the UK to remain in the EU, compared to 42 % who wanted to stick with the economic bloc.