Sentences with phrase «majority of voters going»

The results were pretty much as I expected, as you can see below, with the vast majority of voters going for the «no» option.

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When voters in Florida were approving a lottery, a survey found that the majority believed the lottery was going to pay the major portion of the state budget for education.

In the Senate, even he is tainted by the formation of an IDC Coalition, which usurped the voter's wishes as indicated through the ballot box count, to have a Democratic Majority in the house, when Sen. Jeff Klein went rogue and aligned himself with the Republicans in a leadership sharing arrangement that failed to deliver for the Governor this session.

Firstly that they see this as an opportunity to increase their majority at the expense of Labour and UKIP both of which are now in rather awkward positions and secondly that the current leadership has inherited a bit of an awkward position themselves in that they are committed to a process which is both diplomatically and politically potentially very difficult and dangerous and if it all goes horribly wrong they are really out on a limb so if they get a fresh mandate they can at least blame the voters.

Brandon also reiterated that anything the Con Con produces would go back to the voters for a statewide up - or - down vote, so a majority of New Yorkers can reject any destructive changes.

He assured all NPP members and sympathisers, and the majority of Ghanaians and stakeholders in Ghana's electoral process, who are desirous of a new voters» register ahead of the 2016 election, that, «we want the world to know that no amount of intimidation is going to stop those of us asking for a new register to go about our peaceful advocacy for a new register.»

While voters in democracies usually only incrementally change the party that they support relative to a prior election, every now and then, a party will go from being a leading or majority party, to holding only a small part of the legislature in a single election.

Despite the structural advantages that go with being a Democrat in the Ninth Congressional District, it's Turner and his surrogates who have driven the agenda by keeping the conversation about Barack Obama, who is deeply unpopular with many of the district's white Catholic and Israel - hawk Jewish voters, rather than the agenda of the very conservative House majority Turner would be joining.

The result of the recall showed that majority boycotted the verifications on Saturday while many of those who went to the centres where the lists of voters whose signatures were collected claimed that their signatures were forged.

A majority of voters said «yes» to the spending plan, but it failed to pass because it didn't reach the required supermajority of support to go over or below the property tax cap.

In a video that went viral in June, Republican Mike Turzai, Pennsylvania's House majority leader, spoke approvingly at a Republican State Committee meeting of the state's new voter ID law, «which is going to allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania — done.»

Indeed, much of the plan as spelled out in a news release is aimed at bashing Democrats in the chamber and to remind voters of their brief time in the majority (Senate Democrats note many of the problematic lawmakers from those days are gone or out of the conference all together).

Answers to this are heavily partisan, as you might expect: a hefty majority of Labour voters would like May to go now, only 9 % of Tory voters.

I have never been a quitter and I am not going to start now,» reads a message on the Facebook page of scandal - soaked Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who received a shellacking last night at the hands of Gustavo Rivera, a relatively unknown candidate who won over voters by not being Pedro Espada.

Second, Silver is likely not going anywhere — the voters in his district will re-elect him and the members of the Assembly majority will vote again for him to be Speaker unless JCOPE or Donovan find something that was actually illegal (as upposed to unethical).

Answers to the latter question remain very split along partisan lines — a majority of Labour and Lib Dem voters want Osborne replaced, amongst the Conservative party's own supporters 29 % think that Osborne should go, 47 % that he should stay.

He went on to say that if «you think some of these things Republicans are doing in Congress are wrong» voters should select him because as a Republican member he'll be better able to communicate that to the majority.

Control of the New York State Senate could be decided tomorrow when voters in southwestern Nassau County on Long Island go to the polls to fill the seat vacated by former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Bloomberg went on: «What happens is only people that can go through whatever the majority party is, whether it's Democrats here or Republicans someplace else, they're the only people that really can face the voters and have any meaningful chance of winning.

Siena College pollster Steve Greenberg says that, «trying to avoid the fate of the last three incumbents who went down to defeat (in the 24th), Katko continues to be viewed favorably by a majority of voters and to demonstrate significant crossover appeal.»

When the Marist Poll asked the identical question in March 2005, a majority of voters — 56 % — reported it was time for Bloomberg to go.

Because, the silent, uneducated majority of apathetic voters only gets upset with its / their governments when things physically go off the rails, thus affecting the voters negatively in their pocket books.