Sentences with phrase «influence than voters»

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Sandberg's post came less than a week after The New York Times and The Observer of London reported that Cambridge Analytica, a political data company created by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, gathered users» Facebook data and claimed it could influence the behavior of American voters.

The Canadian firm is suspected of having pocketed more than $ 4 million from assorted pro-Brexit groups for using Facebook data to identify voters whose decision was susceptible to influence.

I am pretty sure Obama is agnostic, or probably atheist, and it is unfortunate that he has to pander to the black voter and pretend he is a Christian, rather than use his influence to raise consciousness in the community.

Religious traditions tied most closely to the Republican Party were less swayed by economic considerations than were their Democratic counterparts, and the least religiously observant voters in both traditions were the ones most influenced by economic woes.

This degree of supporter influence seems to have gone too far, however: Royal's desire to be a «platform for the people» led French voters to see her as being blown by the winds of opinion rather than having strong convictions herself.

We also plan to reanalyse public opinion surveys (with a temporal component) to see how affective rhetoric influences individual voters» actual political choices (rather than the whole electorate).

The irony is that while an anti-political mood appears to have influenced many voters to reject the traditional parties, the outcome is that they are less represented than ever.

In this article, Carl Cullinane explains how, because of the UK's First Past The Post electoral system, some voters come to wield far more influence than others.

The article also details how the Conservative Party of Erie County wields more influence than its 2 % voter registration would suggest.

The Prime Minister and Osborne also rang every friendly newspaper editor urging them to fight for FPTP and impressing on them that their influence in a referendum where voters were not of fixed mind was much greater than a general election where opinions are not so fluid.

Only just over a fifth of Lib Dem voters think their party has much influence within the coalition — indeed Conservative voters are more than twice as likely to think Nick Clegg is influential than his own supporters.

It is clear from the research that policies play a much smaller role in influencing undecided voters than they state explicitly.

Carl Cullinane explains how, because of the UK's First Past The Post electoral system, some voters come to wield far more influence than others.

Because of the UK's First Past The Post electoral system, some voters come to wield far more influence than others.

Next week, Chicago voters will exercise their distinctive brand of school democracy by choosing more than 5,000 fellow citizens to serve on panels that wield potent influence over their neighborhood schools.

Gun owners (voters) have MUCH more influence than the NRA does.

I have an easier time understanding how a «masculine» name could possibly influence voters than I have understanding what would be going on with an appointment committee.

In proportional representation (PR) systems the influence of the floating voter is less than in first - past - the - post majoritarian systems typical in neo-liberal market economies such as Britain and the US.

In Britain, the head of the parliamentary committee investigating fake news accused Cambridge Analytica and Facebook of misleading MPs after revelations in the Observer that more than 50m Facebook profiles were harvested and used to build a system that may have influenced voters in the 2016 presidential campaign.

And now, thanks to a whistleblower and two stunning reports in the Observer and the New York Times, we know that one of those developers siphoned data on more than 50 million Facebook users and shared them with the Trump campaign's voter targeting firm, Cambridge Analytica — a company that has bragged it has psychological profiles on 230 million American voters, which it uses to target people online with emotionally precise digital messaging to influence elections.

The company revealed that as many as 87 million people — 30 million more people than were originally estimated — may have had their personal data misappropriated by the voter profiling firm Cambridge Analytica and used for political influence.

Facebook has been under fire since reports by the Observer newspaper and Channel 4 News in the UK, and the New York Times, revealed that Cambridge Analytica harvested personal information of more than 50 million Facebook users without their consent, and may have used it to influence US voters to elect Donald Trump.

Clinton herself questioned if Cambridge Analytica helped Russian agents influence the election by targeting Facebook ads to voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in an interview with Britain's Channel 4 News, but Trump visited those battleground states more than Clinton did.

Now that unlimited soft dollars can be used when communicating with the public to influence voter opinions, competing in today's new political landscape is more challenging — and expensive — than ever.