Sentences with phrase «getting voters attention»

The 11th Congressional District special election tomorrow has posed a fundamental challenge for the candidates — getting voters attention and making them aware of the occurrence of the election.

Now he is just toting it as a tool for getting voters attention.

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Takeaway: Taking a stance that will make some people angry is great — it gets you more attention, more press coverage and more fans (or in Trump's case, voters).

If it was Dick Morris I would just dismiss it as an attention getting stunt from a guy who makes his living reassuring and fundraising from right - leaning voters and knowing he will still get bookings regardless of whether he is right in the end.

Why is a guy with a record as impressive as Huntsman's getting so little attention from Republican voters?

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.

«Senate Democrats are desperate to get voters to pay attention to something other than the breathtaking corruption and criminal activity that exists within their own conference, after the State Inspector General turned over the findings of his cash for casinos investigation to the U.S. Attorney's Office so Democrats could be prosecuted for wrongdoing.,» said Reif.

In fact, the public are not really paying attention any more; it is only the Budget and autumn statement that really gets cut - through to the voters.

It's a classic jujitsu idea — use your enemy's strengths against him, in this case leveraging off of the favorable attention Gerlach has been getting over his puppy bill to point out something that he IS N'T working on... or at least, something that Trevedi would like voters to PERCEIVE that he isn't working on.

Here's one angle of the Brown campaign that hasn't gotten much attention: Brown's folks used free Google online tools to help organize grassroots voter outreach and to collect field data.

As for getting voters» attention, only 36 % of hard - core MySpace and Facebook enthusiasts listed social networking sites as a top way to reach them, comparable with direct mail and only a hair above newspaper and radio advertising!

Yes, progressive bloggers were vital for getting Lamont attention across the country and no doubt helped bring national news coverage and out - of - state donations, but the campaign itself stayed local: «focused on building a file of likely voters, organizing a turnout effort and circulating Lamont at events, including small gatherings in living rooms.»

Like a youngest brother desperate not to get overlooked, the Lib Dems are attention - seekingly eager to remind voters and the media: we still matter.

«For us, the biggest distinguishing factor is that every major newspaper in the state endorsed Gelber, so that's a message we could get to voters in a few words in an ad, catching their attention on their phones as they're going into the polls,» Christian Ulvert, Gelber's campaign aide, told us.

An ad that never ran got plenty of media coverage and took attention away from the issues on which the group wanted to focus voters (though all the attention also boosted the group's membership, so it wasn't exactly a total loss).

As Tim Wu's fascinating book The Attention Merchants suggests, this all makes it more complex for anyone selling anything — from commercial goods to political candidates — to get their stories and messages in front of potential customers and voters.

With the party already at a financial disadvantage compared to Labour and the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats are likely to face real difficulties in getting their message across to voters — especially when attention is paid to the two main parties and emerging forces such as UKIP and the Greens.

Astorino needs to create controversy or make specific regional proposals to get attention from the press and voters.

It's tragic because there are millions of African - American voters in New York but they get little attention from Democratic pols because these self - appointed «leaders» are a bunch of lazy or corrupt suck - ups whose idea of gaining power for Black people is to ask Party bigshots to guarantee a winning spot on «the ticket» as if this were 1910 and Tammany Hall still ruled.

As more and more voters start to pay attention, it's not a bad time for the cybernats to have finally got their game together.

«You've committed to Reform, and New York Uprising is committed to helping you get the attention of the voters in your district,» Riff wrote.

Though if you force me to pick who could benefit most, it's probably de Blasio: He and Stringer had the most philosophical overlap, and with Quinn and Thompson known commodities, de Blasio is now likely to get more media and voter attention as a fresh alternative.

So they are really going to have to pay special attention to get their voters out next Tuesday for this race.

The laundry lists — this year's Republican version runs about 50 pages — are also a chance for different factions within a party to publicize issues that might not be getting much attention from voters — or even from their own standard - bearer.

Between events in Billings, she spoke with ScienceInsider about her personal history and her message to voters that they need to «pay attention, get involved, make a difference.»

With a number of actress - driven films getting awards attention, voters had to make tough decisions to narrow down the field to 5.

It's not always the case, especially not so in the Best Actress race; what better way to get attention from Oscar voters than to go dark.

Adds Eamonn Bowles, the president of Magnolia Pictures, which acquired «Tangerine» out of Sundance in January: «The trans aspect will undoubtedly garner the film attention, but frankly the best strategy is to get as many voters to see it as possible,» he says.

On the male side, Dave Johns and Adam Driver will find admirers for «I, Daniel Blake» and «Paterson,» respectively, but those small movies will have to work hard to get voters» attention.

Continuing the year of the vet, earlier we saw strong performances that could attract voters» attention from a past winner, 70 - year - old Helen Mirren, in Woman In Gold (a film The Weinstein Company has already started campaigning for its star); and 72 - year - old Blythe Danner getting a full - bodied leading role in the hit adult indie I'll See You In My Dreams which has grossed over $ 7 million so far for new distributor Bleecker Street, which will probably be encouraged to launch an Oscar campaign on her behalf.

Barack Obama did just give a major speech on the environment that has gotten some attention, though — do you think, despite voter apathy on the subject, that the issue could move the needle for a candidate?

If they think they can get away with not paying attention for a few months, or that voters have moved on to another hot - button issue, they'll gladly spend their time and money pursuing other things.

The campaign did get a lot of attention for the way it used the new social media outlets to target voters, though.