Sentences with phrase «ideas than no voters»

Recall that the SNP won 56 of 59 seats in Scotland with a manifesto committed to promoting anti-austerity policies, and that the 45 % who voted Yes to independence were more likely to be driven by left - wing ideas than No voters.

Not exact matches

More than half of 13,592 voters asked (55 percent) about raising the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour say they support the idea.

The awareness of the predicament (on the part of both the politicians at the microphones and the voters in the streets) conceivably could lead to a reconstitution of the American idea, but the finding of the phoenix in the ashes presupposes a debate rising from an intellectual structure a good deal sturdier than the one lost in the wreckage of the World Trade Center.

We are a democracy, so just like many laws are based on Christian ideals (regardless of what other citizens believe other than Xtianity) laws in the future could be based on Islamic ideas - all it takes is enough voters becoming muslim.

To give you an idea of just how unhappy lawmakers are with the governor's habit — like other governors before him — of stuffing non-budget policy items into the budget, Deputy Senate Minority Leader John DeFrancisco has suggested the Legislature move a constitutional amendment that would go before voters to outlaw anything other than spending from being put into the annual spending plan.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

And while he can't fix the problem overnight — or even by Election Day 2018 — by demonstrating constant leadership on the issue, proposing new ideas regularly, demanding accountability, and owning the problem (no one dislikes de Blasio more than I do, but trying to pin the blame on him assures mutual destruction), he can convince voters he's on their side and best equipped to (literally) run the trains on time.

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).

We certainly know that Labour's idea that devolution would kill the desire for independence hasn't worked although many of tonight's voters for Alex Salmond's party want to kick Labour rather than want an end of the Union.

On every question in this survey, Lib Dem voters tend to display more support than Labour and Tory supporters towards Mr Assange and Ecuador's government, and more opposition to the idea of the police seizing him, either inside the embassy or on the way to an airport.

But the new message — his plan would do more for Upstate than emerging ideas from Assembly and Senate leaders — signals that part of this year's budget negotiations will focus on winning over Upstate voters and taxpayers.

In the suburbs, 52 percent oppose the idea, 1 percent higher than the 51 percent of upstate voters who balk at the renaming.

The idea may sound improbable, especially when it sometimes seems that more politicians court voters by ridiculing science than by studying it.

3: «Get Out» or Luca Guadagnino's achingly tender «Call Me by Your Name» will emerge as a popular first choice among Oscar voters, and a film that was made for considerably less than $ 10 million will win Best Picture for the second year in a row, confirming that «Moonlight» changed the game in more ways than one and forever altered our idea of what constitutes an «Oscar Movie.»

But it's also far easier to envision something like Get Out or Lady Bird, both critically acclaimed box office hits, having the sort of broad popularity with these younger voters than it would be with the older voters, who tend toward more artistically conservative ideas of what an Oscar - worthy movie is.

Interestingly, however, a few pieces of evidence suggest that voters like the idea of the standards more than the standards themselves.

Voters will have the final say on the idea of changing the state constitution, no sooner than April 2018.

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