Sentences with phrase «large voting population»

However, millennials seem to have taken a liking to cryptocurrencies, and they form a large voting population thus offering an interesting campaign platform for politicians the world over.

Not exact matches

The county, whose largest city is Wilkes - Barre and whose overall population is more than 320,000, voted for Trump in larger numbers than it did for any Republican presidential candidate since President Richard Nixon in 1972.

This is especially true in large countries, such as China and India, where the sheer size of the millennial population is already having a global impact, but also here at home in Canada, where the millennial cohort is becoming an important strategic voting bloc.

In town surveys, residents consistently vote for (and in large numbers) living within the carrying capacity of the Sheep River watershed (aka «the population cap»).

Opinion polls indicate that the share of the nonwhite population holding (moderately) center - right policy views is significantly larger than the share that voted for Romney.

A January 2000 survey by the Panetta Institute found college students are less likely to vote than the population at large.

The accompanying table reports on the religious vote, based on a large national survey of the adult population (conducted before and after the election at the University of Akron with a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts).

Moreover, in some states with large Catholic populations (e.g., Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois) union leadership was more than usually effective in getting out the vote for Gore.

They're targeting a large swath of the population who is normally not politically engaged enough to vote in non-presidential elections, but has been much more politically engaged since Trump got elected.

What is extremely difficult to pin down and, according to him, the greatest challenge for accurate polling is determining who is actually likely to vote in any given election, both among the respondents, and how that maps out to the larger population.

This can also lead to a spoiler effect, as in some elections, large parts of the population voted for parties that failed to reach the threshold and were thus not represented (both Russia 1995 and Turkey 2002 this was more than 40 %).

While some of this population surge is due to Hasidim, the traditionally garbed community whose cultural practices often lead to large families of 10 or more children (and whose neighborhoods voted more heavily for John McCain in 2008 than the State of Utah), the larger Orthodox Jewish population is experiencing explosive growth in New York City as well.

Evan Harris - Liberal Democrat Dr Evan Harris lost his seat of Oxford West and Abingdon to the Conservatives by just 176 votes - a major hit for the Lib Dems in a constituency with a large student population.

Jewish voters represent a sizable portion of the Queens district's population, and an even larger portion of the district's swing voters willing to vote for either party, a fact further highlighted by the announcement events of Democratic Assembly Members Rory Lancman and Grace Meng heavily highlighting the issue.

The area, with a large Jewish and Russian population, has reliably leaned Republican, so candidates are smart in assuming that they might get more milage out of their meet - and - greets out there — Assembly District 45, encompassing Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, was, along with Borough Park's Assembly District 48, one of the few parts of the city where Mitt Romney won more votes than Barack Obama in 2012.

He added «If the NDC which has large following — almost half of the voting population in this country should not criticize the Akufo - Addo government, who should do that?»

Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said the party had seen a sharper increase in vote share in areas with a large graduate population, saying it may be having «a measure of success» in reconnecting with that market.

Election officials estimate some 350 absentee votes are being challenged in the other counties.Ulsteris the county with the largest population in the new district.

Has a very large public sector workforce and growing Asian population (though it's true that some could vote Conservative).

Game theorists noticed, though, that in large populations, your vote matters only when there's an exact tie.

By a 7 - 0 vote, the board made it clear that it would do what it could to discourage the effort by the Broad - affiliated group, Great Public Schools Now, to grow what is already the largest charter school population of any school district in the country.

India has the world's largest population after China, and it is a young country with a growing voting - age population.

The 2014 Bark for Your Park runner - up cities for each category include: • Hattiesburg, a town in Mississippi with a population of about 45,989, was the runner - up in the large city category with a total of 34,592 votes, and won $ 25,000.

At a recent fund - raiser at the waterfront offices of Sungevity, an Oakland, Calif., solar company, hedge fund managers and other well - heeled investors sipped cocktails and mingled with inner - city activists in the hope of raising $ 1.9 million for a turn - out - the - vote campaign that will is aimed at nine counties with large populations of African - American, Asian and Latino voters.

While «silent revolution» spoke of the deepening of democracy in another era, through Dalit populations voting politically to make a difference, the book introduces the phrase «quiet revolution'to speak of what the RSS / BJP have wrought in India's largest state.