Sentences with phrase «good number of voters»

It's certainly enough to inform a good number of voters.

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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.

I can't count the number of columns Bret Stephens has written in the last six months expressing his unqualified horror over the ignorance and stupidity of the Republican voters who have the temerity to reject the political wisdom of their betters.

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).

Now Stringer is also trying to turn Spitzer's candidacy (which could very well be short lived, unless he manages to collect a sufficient number of valid voter signatures by Thursday) as a fund - raising tool.

«They went out and asked for voter ID numbers as well as the polling station codes of their members.

In fairness, I should probably add that in a fair number of cases, Democrats (both politicians and just normal voters) might well take similar positions in any case.

A number of vendors and polling firms also offer what seem to be quite sophisticated microtargeting - based voter / donor outreach, but I've also heard experienced direct mail database people say that the by far the best predictor of a person's propensity to give money to a campaigh is his or her past history of donating — people who've donated before are more likely to donate again.

This is not true, given that huge numbers of eligible voters don't have strong opinions on issues and that even people with reasonably well formed views may not flip their vote (even in competitive primaries) based on those views.

And well... one can only hope that the number of irrational voters «for» equal the number of irrational voters «against» and that at the end both compensate: - D

The campaign also amassed a central list of roughly one million cell numbers and used SMS text messages to promote voter turnout as well as to make campaign announcements such as Joe Biden's selection as Vice President.

At PS 163 on East 180th Street off Webster Avenue only 78 voters had cast their vote, as of 2 p.m. Perhaps the low numbers can be party explained by the fact that station is dimly and well hidden.

The traditional good government groups like the League of Women Voters and NYPIRG are joined by a number of unions, and for first time a national group, the Public Campaign Action Fund.

That's where the poll numbers count, and right now those numbers show that Cuomo's brand of fiscal conservatism and social liberalism isn't sitting well with rank - and - file Republican voters.

Actually, the numbers are a little bit better for The President in the suburbs of New York, including Westchester, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, where 37 % of suburbian voters approve of Trump while 60 % disapprove.

At 14.5 percent of the enrolled list of voters it's larger than the likely number of voters for the special election, but it's a good place to begin and it's where things start to look better for Republicans.

And with these numbers, it looks a lot more reasonable for a Republican to win if they capture a lot of independent voters and have better turnout.

Whatever one thinks of the current government's economic performance, Labour still need to persuade voters that they would do a better job if they were in Numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street.

Tory constitutional reform minister Mark Harper insists there's a good chance the total number of registered voters won't fall at all.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

Popular commentary in the past year has focused on the Party's difficulty in winning the support of aspirational C2 voters, as well as the difficulty in winning larger numbers of ethnic minority voters over to the Conservatives.

Jowell is also better like than her rivals among the smaller number of Lib Dem and Ukip voters.

Even significant numbers of Labour (26 %) and Lib Dem (35 %) voters thought the Conservatives» reputation was getting better.

Sue Lerner, with Common Cause, says currently most contributions for campaigns for statewide offices, as well as the Senate and Assembly, come from a limited number of zip codes, many from the area right around the Capitol, where major lobbying and other interest groups have their offices, as well as the Upper East and West Sides of Manhattan, and Wall Street, and «not from the actual voters».

He said Corbyn did well in June's general election because his policy on leaving the EU was vague enough to attract a substantial number of anti-Brexit Tory voters and very large numbers of pro-EU, internationalist - minded young voters.

The primary is expected to draw a fraction of Democratic voters, and Carroll says Teachout could do better than the numbers seem to show.

Speaking through his spokesperson, Lere Olayinka, Fayose said, «even though there were reports of malfunctioning of card readers, number of votes exceeding the number of accredited voters, and pockets of violence as well as buying of votes, the election was better than others conducted by INEC under the present government of the APC.»

It is unfortunate that in today's Nigeria, the authorities seem so prepared to waste so much public resources in conducting elections as was the case in the Kogi State supplementary election, which many consider unnecessary, but was conducted on the grounds of a so - called 91,000 voters, who were yet to vote, and who may not even have had the Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, whereas the total number of people who had PVCs was just 25,000, and APC was already leading by well over 41,000 votes.

This year voters from the left to the right of all strips will have a chance to vote to create a number of New Parties and that is a good thing.

From the provision of basic security to voters at political party rallies and campaigns, to ensuring that result forms are protected, the whole electoral process is defined by security considerations, especially in view of the number of election personnel involved, election materials that need to be moved, difficulty of the terrain to be traversed as well as the polling locations that need to be protected.

There is a significant number of party - unaffiliated voters to woo as well as moderate Democrats and Republicans, but most of the votes in play for Dietl or Malliotakis are largely out of the de Blasio target area to begin with.

The decision to campaign as Better Together in conjunction with the Coalition parties alienated large numbers of working class voters from Scottish Labour.The lack of a «more devolution» option polarised working class opinion though that option was effectively revived in «the vow «agreed between the Westminster parties last month.

Rascoe, who confers regularly with Cardinale on such matters as cross-endorsements (the better to deprive voters of choice) wasn't particularly critical of his opposite number's present unpleasantness.

State Officer Mark Kravis is leading the Reform Party of California in a voter registration drive to boost its membership numbers this election cycle as well, in order to qualify for ballot access in 2016.

With the national surge in their support the party might do even better and add a third seat to their tally, especially if the Liberal Democrats lose a lot of votes, or northern Tory voters defect in numbers to them.

«I think most people are fiscally conservative... even many of our unaffiliated voters and a number of our Democrats as well.»

Nixon's best shot, he said, comes in the ever - declining number of voters who participate in primaries.

With voter turnout at record low numbers, a new bill that just passed in the closing days of the New York State Assembly session could very well go a long way to bringing out new voters.

There are also signs that President Obama's attempts to re-create the coalition that helped elect him in 2008 have come up short — particularly with young voters whose numbers in preliminary exit polling are well short of where they stood two years ago.

By Sean O'Connell hollywoodnews.com: Best Actress nominee Glenn Close could be in for a big Oscar telecast IF there are a large number of Irish voters in the Academy.

If the controversy around Franco had hit earlier, I think a good number of Academy voters would have swung in favor of the safer vote (Hanks).

Assuming she's nominated, some Academy voters may want to give her her fourth Oscar, meaning she would draw level with Katharine Hepburn for the number of wins, though Hepburn's were all as Best Actress while Streep's Kramer vs. Kramer win was in the Best Supporting Actress category.

While many have claimed the film's handling of Sam Rockwell's racist cop character is problematic at best, one black voter said the film was his «favorite» and it would be getting his number - one slot for Best Pictbest, one black voter said the film was his «favorite» and it would be getting his number - one slot for Best PictBest Picture.

But «The Book of Life» is a formidable contender as well — and remember, these voters have made a number of off - the - wall choices in previous years.

While Emanuel's numbers were better among white voters, 56 percent still disapproved of his handling of the schools while 28 percent approved.

But when you aggregate a large number of voters, it becomes easy to gain at least a good sense of who is going to win the election.

No one is holding a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to vote so I can only assume that a large number of Freddies voters genuinely still think that AAdvantage is the best airline loyalty program in the Americas....

In total, the personal information of potentially near all of America's 200 million registered voters was exposed, including names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and voter registration details, as well as data described as «modeled» voter ethnicities and religions.

Michael Polzler, executive vice ‑ president and regional director of Re / Max Ontario ‑ Atlantic Canada, countered criticism of his company's ad by stressing that a number of candidates not on the Re / Max slate, including president ‑ elect Lai, ran very well ‑ organized campaigns and got out strong voter support.