Sentences with phrase «important than voters»

«If Labour Ministers decide that protecting their dominance in County Halls is more important than voters being able to cast a fair vote at election time, the Welsh Lib Dems will have no choice but to vote down this Bill.

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As more than a few columnists have been writing, voters in Calgary will be the most important constituency in 2019 election.

Not every Republican voter would be for such a Cruz immigration program, but that is less important than it seems.

Tea Party supporters are «much more likely than registered voters as a whole to say that their religion is the most important factor in determining their opinions on... social issues» like abortion and same - sex marriage, according to the Pew analysis.

Despite some Republican party activists asserting this is the most important presidential election since George Washington was elected (no, really), voter turnout in several cases was lower than in the 2008 Republican Primary.

Yes, members (and people, cats, Tories etc who paid three quid) are important but they aren't higher up the political food chain than MPs who are elected by thousands of voters and nor should they be.

If we view women as rational voters who likely weigh any number of different issues that they find important before making a decision on a slate of candidates, than this example is anything but puzzling.

In these fiscally challenging times, New York voters could not be more fortunate than to have someone of Harry Wilson's caliber running for this critically important office.»

If past is prologue, campaigns have very little concrete history to work with when it comes to individual voters — which is one reason that canvassing and phone - banking are so important, since each one has the potential to yield significantly more information about a voter's beliefs and intentions than a campaign will otherwise have access to.

In fact, both parties» immigration stances — Democrats» efforts to protect the so - called Dreamers and Trump's insistence on funding a border wall with Mexico — are viewed by voters as less important than keeping the government open.

First, our research shows that voters regard a government's choice to time the election strategically and for partisan benefit as significantly less important to their vote choice than the incumbent's policy performance and party leadership.

This means that voters see them as less important than the «first - order» elections for the national...

Working class (DE) voters in the South are more likely to vote Conservative than middle class (AB) voters in the North (page 5) but there is an important public / private sector split to this.

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).

He explained that «if we all recognised the rights of each other and appreciated that no vote or voter is more important than the other, we will appreciate the tenets of democracy and respect the choices of people to avoid unnecessary conflicts and violence that characterise elections in some parts of the African continent.»

Come the next general election voters are just as likely to find the most important news and announcements via a Twitter feed or a comment on Facebook than they are in a newspaper.

Fidler already has high name recognition and a good reputation in the district, and there's not much time for Storobin to raise his profile, which will be critically important in a special election where voters are paying even less attention to a state Senate race than in November.

But voters think enacting Cuomo's plan is less important than getting a budget in place before the April 1 deadline, and half said Cuomo's ultimatum was, «an idle political threat designed to make him look good.»

Ultimately, tone and culture is more important than institutional structure in changing the relationship between voters and politicians.

More important to voters than the deficit is the NHS (44 %) and controlling immigration (38 %).

But under Republican rules, this absence of party members actually makes voters in the city more important than their co-partisans from north of Van Cortlandt Park.

The issue tops most voter polls and is rated more important than health care and Social Security issues.

«In evaluating school performance, registered voters in California say creating a safe and positive school environment is far more important than higher scores on standardized tests, according to a Berkeley IGS / EdSource poll.

Better yet would be to debate an energy policy for the USA, including opening up exploratory oil and gas drilling including shale deposits, limiting the exponential growth of regulations currently stifling new exploration, ending the EPA regulatory war on coal, reactivating the Keystone pipeline, etc.; these issues have direct impact on American jobs and future energy independence, both of which are more important issues for US voters (and presidential candidates) than any «climate» debate.

Look at assylum seeker policies, the ideological position that borders should be open to low information leftist voters even though the means has killed some 1200 people, it's the same thing, ideology is held to be more important than individual people.

It would be hard to think of a bigger insult to voters in a democracy than giving the last word on important decisions to people whose only qualification was the amount of noise they made,

API conducted an election night survey of actual voters, and the findings reveal that more than 80 percent of voters agree that U.S. oil and natural gas production can help achieve each of their most important priorities: job creation, economic growth, lower energy costs, and energy security.

Earlier in the evening, when it appeared that 2B would fail, supporters of municipalization gathered at the Hotel Boulderado said that earning voter approval for starting a municipal utility was far more important than having voters pass the companion tax.

Lowering drug costs (94 %) and letting Medicare negotiate drug prices (96 %) is more important to Trump voters than building a wall between the US and Mexico (77 %).

In this informal poll 73 percent of the 71 voters indicated that job satisfaction was more important than salary in their career.

On the other side of the equation, 27 percent of the voters indicated that salary was more important than job satisfaction.

One - third of voters feel home ownership is more important than five years ago.