Sentences with phrase «made swing voters»

A number of issues and factors affected the outcome of that election, but the very closeness of the race made swing voters, for whom education is a top priority, particularly crucial.

The races are local, but what is making swing voters take notice is how their local republicans are wedded to the disastrous agenda of their national party leaders.

Not exact matches

During his imagined campaign, Franken painted his opponent as a tool of the financial industry and managed to win the White House despite insulting Iowa voters, making outlandish yet simple campaign promises, indulging his mood swings, and being accused of extramarital affairs.

Simcha Felder says he will stick with New York Republicans, even as voters went to the polls in special elections that could make him the swing vote.

While this meant that the Garrisons and the Sumners were unpopular with swing voters, their more inflammatory form of anti-slavery politics made it easier for somewhat more moderate (in both tone and substance) politicians to campaign on opposition to slavery.

Most swing voters have never heard a conservative make an extended argument for any kind of market - oriented health care reform.

One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didn't want to make a strong play for working - class white voters in swing states.

On one hand, their districts are closely divided, and they need to display independence from the liberal House Democratic leadership in order to appeal to the centrist, swing voters who will likely make the difference between winning and losing in the 2014 elections.

For political campaigns, this change means making room in television budgets for additional creative, so that media consultants could run a different ad aimed at persuadable swing voters than they send to likely base voters.

«A couple of Republicans residing in the district have proven themselves to be very adept at attracting swing and even traditional Democratic voters and could be coaxed into making a run.»

Not only does the electoral system work against us, making the whole election contingent on a handful of swing voters in marginal constituencies, but the rightwing media get to call all the shots.

Swing voters say an apology from Labour for its mistakes in government would make them more likely to consider returning to the party.

69 per cent say the new leader should defend the record of the previous government, especially on the economy; swing voters say this would make them less likely to consider supporting Labour.

Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, and Kamala Harris made an early stab at addressing swing voters.

And while Democrats are essentially flat, making up 42 percent of the district and 41 percent of triple filtered voters, the other large swing is with unaffiliated voters.

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

The right track - wrong track question has taken something of a swing: Last month voters by a margin of 49 percent to 41 percent said the state was heading in the wrong direction — making for a 15 - point improvement in how they are viewing the direction of the state.

One theory was that there had simply been a very late swing to the Conservatives, with the polling company Survation claiming that 13 % of voters made up their minds in the final days and 17 % on the day of the election.

I do nt think it's former labour voters that make up the missing votes, as most gave died, but the ones who stopped voting labour went to ukip, and they're not going to fine back, if labour swing to the left.

The other big swing in 2017 was with unaffiliated voters, who make up 25 percent of the district and only accounted for 15 percent of the vote last May.

The GOP nominee, who had repeatedly said his call to take a «baseball bat to Albany» was «a metaphor,» produced an orange - red bat and took pretend swings, warning Cuomo to listen to the voters and said, «Make no mistake, you have not heard the last of Carl Paladino.»

Osborne is making a naked plea to Labour and swing voters with initiatives like the Northern Powerhouse, and a National Infrastructure Commission led by Lord Adonis.

Another way of not letting her damage labours chances is to make labour appear electable and get more swing voters, voting for us,

«We're spending a lot of time trying to do voter - to - voter contact in the swing states, trying to make sure they are aware of the facts, know the difference between the candidates and know how important their vote is,» Steyer said.

3] Even so, I expect to read: «Obama campaign makes Race to the Top, push on college affordability a centerpiece in effort to woo suburban swing voters.»

want to make these potential swing voters happy while preserving the integrity of their bill.

Notably, the «swing» voter helping to make up the majority opinions in Petrus and Simmons — both of which declare procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed in a procedurally questionable manner — both happen to be district judges sitting by designation.