Sentences with phrase «get voters interested»

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It's here where things get interesting: Like businesses, campaigns will often change in reference to technology and tactics, and innovation will carve out new ways for the candidates to connect with their «customers» — the voters.

Over at Pine Trails Park, down the street from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, a group of mothers of children too young to walk out spent the day signing up new voters with representatives from the League of Women Voters and getting anyone interested to sign various petivoters with representatives from the League of Women Voters and getting anyone interested to sign various petiVoters and getting anyone interested to sign various petitions.

In order to get a large number of people whom they regard as undereducated, easily led sheep to vote against their own best interests, they push emotional buttons, invoking images of Jesus and helpless babies, to make voters think this is what they stand for and want to protect.

It's about realizing he couldn't litigate his past comedy, about trusting his staff, about understanding why politicians act the way they do in interviews, about recognizing why the norms of the Senate matter.So this is an interview about what it's like to be a politician, why perfectly nice and interesting people end up acting like all those other politicians after getting elected, and the role we as voters (and we in the media) play in it.

This discussion will look at how candidates and interest groups in in the U.S. are using Facebook advertising, Twitter, Google Ads, mobile phones, location - based services and older technologies like email and blogs to raise money, mobilize support and get voters to the polls in an important election year, with an emphasis on practical results and the implications for future political campaigns around the world.

So Labour need to get to the disaffected voters who maybe voted Labour in the past and not anymore; they also need to get to those who are not even interested in politics.

An interesting fact... There is a clause in the Twelfth Amendment that basically made George W Bush and Dick Cheney ineligible and they committed voter registration fraud to get around it.

I'm not wasting much time on Lords reform, which has excited so much media interest, largely because the very public feuding between coalition factions, peers and the Labour party in recent days confirm the hunch that it isn't going to get far, doesn't deserve to do so, and that most voters won't notice or care.

«We're getting a steady flow of calls on the main complaints,» said Gene Russianoff of the New York Public Interest Research Group, which runs a voter help hotline.

There is a concerted effort by a wide range of interests to get New York voters to approve Proposition Three on the November ballot two weeks from now.

Appearing before the Treasury select committee of backbench MPs, the chancellor said there would be «very significant financial volatility» if voters chose to leave the EU in the 23 June referendum, which would push up interest rates and tighten credit conditions — making it harder for borrowers to get loans.

Furthermore, voters will get to rank the candidates as the election will be using Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), which will be very interesting given that there are 14 candidates on the ballot.

«We think it is in their interest to get their messages out there to the voters.»

«With so much at stake, and with the possibility of downstate special interest groups getting a stranglehold on state government, the voters of this district deserve to hear a thoughtful discussion on issues from all the candidates.»

Indeed, special interest groups are most effective when they get real voters to do just that - write their Congressmen.

«There's a lot of people who are interested in this race, among others in the state, but the bottom line is it's the voters in the 46th Senate district who get to send their representative to Albany, and it's up to them,» Tkaczyk said in an interview at her headquarters in Guilderland outside of Albany.

Rob is more interested in getting some media coverage than he is in debating issues and letting voters know where the candidates stand,» said Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor.

Astoria Democrat Jeremiah Frei - Pearson said he has fought powerful interests and gotten results for the residents of his neighborhood and plans to do the same if chosen by voters as the replacement for state Assemblyman Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria) this fall.

One of the more - interested observers of last Tuesday's election results was Zephyr Teachout, who helped crystallize the voter discontent with Governor Cuomo during her Democratic primary run that contributed to Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins — who got even less exposure to the electorate than she did — capturing 5 percent of the ballots for Governor, tripling his vote total from four years earlier.

Voters in his district deserve to know whose interests he has been representing because when it comes to a fair wage, it hasn't been theirs,» said Hector Figueroa, president of SEIU Local 32BJ, which led the drive last year to get $ 15 an hour approved for fast food workers.

«The perception certainly is that these big moneyed interests will get what they need if they give enough money,» said Barbara Bartoletti of the League of Women Voters of New York States.

«As the public gets more turned off you can see it in the voter turnout numbers, interest groups wield more clout, which further alienates the voting public.»

Noam is all about the interest of the few over the interest of the many; all while cynically seeking to exploit minority voters who, if they ever got organized, would control the entire City.

If you're not looking — like this anonymous real - life Oscar voter wasn't — Get Out is an engaging movie with an interesting slant.

It's interesting how the precursor leaders haven't been able to capitalize on their early support which is just another example to the vocal community during the first week of December, that nothing matters until the Oscar voters get to voting.

This is what you would expect if Democrats were merely using fear of catastrophic climate change to get the support of low - information voters, and had no interest in genuinely addressing what they knew to be a fake problem.

The interest in getting more information on how these companies left the doors open for voter manipulation across both sides of the aisle gets to the heart of why Russian election meddling is so troubling: If powerful foreign adversaries are working to sway American voters, it doesn't matter what team you're on.

Voters sent Rubio to Washington to represent our interests, not throw up his hands because the going got tough.