Sentences with phrase «majority of voters who»

The lying politician or the majority of the voters who vote for the lying politician instead of the honest one.

Regarding the alleged majority of voters who care about climate change: even if that's so and Obama is reelected, judging by Obama's performance so far it seems wildly unrealistic to expect him to do a fossil fuel about - face any time soon.

A majority of voters who cited education as their number - one concern in 2000 still pulled the lever for Democrat Al Gore.

Broken out by categories, the only majority of voters who thinks Cuomo should run for president are non-whites.

Not surprisingly, at least a majority of voters who consider themselves to be Republican back the GOP candidate.

To pass, the ballot measure would require approval from a majority of voters who reside in the city, and from a majority of Onondaga County voters who reside outside the city.

Implicitly the great majority of voters who don't follow politics closely take the view that they have made their decision and aren't interested in what the rejected party has to say until close to the following election.

But appointing a Democrat would have meant preserving a modicum of ideological balance on the board, not to mention respecting the wishes of the majority of voters who have repeatedly re-elected Krupski to that local office.

They are silent majority, similar to the silent majority of voters who regarded Ed Miliband as wholly unelectable and the Labour party as unable to manage the public purse.

Once they had the data showing the majority of voters who did not own a drivers license were black, which is what they were looking for, they passed a voter I.D. law saying you had to have a drivers license to vote, thus disenfranchising thousands of black voters.

Shrewdly, Davidson realised there was a market for the majority of voters who believe that «No» should mean no.

A wide majority of voters who supported Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election say they would vote for her again despite her loss, according to a new poll.

Not exact matches

The poll also said 49 percent of voters believe Democrats should win control of the Senate, compared with 39 percent who want the GOP to maintain a majority.

Sanders also prevailed among liberal voters, who made up the majority of the exit - poll respondents.

He played his squabbling rivals against themselves; he absorbed criticism from the Terence Corcorans of the world, who decried his high - spending ways; he became familiar to just enough voters to win his long - sought majority.

When likely voters were asked whether a third - party candidate who is certified on a majority of state ballots should be included in the presidential debates, 76 percent said yes; 17 percent said no; and 7 percent were undecided.

When Canadians were offered a choice between a climate change policy that offered the possibility of personal inconvenience and the siren call of the Axis of Climate Change Dimwits, a clear majority of voters chose parties who promised a climate change policy that would cost them nothing.

Since Southern Baptists abandoned native son Jimmy Carter and joined the Reagan revolution in 1980, they have become an increasingly important part of those values - voters who have made the Republicans, at least for now, the majority party in American political life.

While a majority of the evangelicals who voted in 2016 supported Trump, there can be no doubt that his candidacy and campaign caused a sharp divide among Christian voters — if you need proof, just scroll through Facebook or Twitter or bring up the new president at church.

Obama is a career politician and like all other career politicians his campaign attempts to portray him as a candidate who appeals to the majority of voters.

The majority of Californians, including two - thirds of the state's black voters, have just had their core civil right - the right to vote - stripped from them by an openly gay federal judge who has misread history and the Constitution to impose his views on the state's people.

Lindsay says that the motherhood angle could be refreshing to evangelical voters, who constitute a majority of the Republican electorate in early states like Iowa and South Carolina.

Similarly, on average, a majority (55 %) of voters who answered «a great deal» voted for either Cruz or Rubio.

The winner - take - all and first - past - the - post systems are degenerate cases of this; each voter is asked only for their first preference, and the candidate who is the first preference of a majority or plurality of voters wins.)

A reader forwarded an e-mail sent this afternoon by the campaign of Gustavo Rivera, the most high - profile of Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr.'s primary challengers, accusing the Bronx lawmaker of mailing letters «using itimidating language» to voters who signed Rivera's petitions.

Lebowitz said Brooks has raised the majority of her campaign funds from «everyday voters and job creators who live in Monroe County.»

Liz adds: (The fact that she led the change against US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor as counsel of the Judicial Confirmation Network particularly worries some GOP chairs who don't want to alienate Hispanic voters — a very important voting bloc, particularly as the Senate majority hangs in the balance).

The overwhelming majority of «no» voters who voted Labour in 2010 also voted Labour in 2015, as the British Election Study shows.

His campaign has focused heavily on ethics and anti-corruption measures, a theme that he hopes resonates with voters after the ouster of disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was convicted on corruption charges in December.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno deemed Giuliani «Judas» for turning his back on the party's nominee, little - known state Sen. George Pataki, who ended up defeating Mario Cuomo in what was widely attributed more to voters» rejection of the liberal incumbent than their desire to see a GOP legislator from Peekskill in the executive mansion.

Wary of the headache this issue caused Senate President Malcolm Smith, who had to do a delicate dance to both appease the LGBT community that had invested more than $ 1 million to help him win the majority and the members like Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. who held the votes to his leadership post, Sampson is both supporting the six remaining «no» voters and refusing to promise to bring marriage to the floor for another vote.

And in the future too, we should expect to see ever more intense efforts to reach more and more potentially persuadable or potentially «mobilizable» voters in high - stakes, well - resourced, competitive elections, even as the majority of Americans who live in states and districts that are not competitive will hear less and less from campaigns as they, quite reasonably, use all available information to concentrate their resources where they think they matter.

This proposal will also completely disenfranchise the majority of working class and middle class voters, and empower those who will be utterly alienated from the consequences of exploiting them.

(Actually, the latest poll found that while a majority of NYC voters don't think de Blasio deserves re-election, he's still trouncing all of his potential rivals, and the one who comes closest to beating him is a fellow Democrat — and erstwhile primary opponent — former NYC Council Speaker Chris Quinn).

Compounding problems for Democrats hoping to win the seat, a majority of voters — 54 percent — are locked into their decision as to who they will vote for in the special election, while 33 percent said they were «fairly certain» they won't change their mind.

Shane Hubers, a Republican who ran for local office last year, challenged the registration of dozens of voters — the majority of them Democrats — in Beaufort County.

What was true a year ago is even truer now: what should matter most to Tories is not the coalition between the parties, but the coalition of voters who will decide whether to elect a Conservative government with an overall majority.

Much of their support is from the Conservative heartlands, and even the vast majority of those workers who intend to vote for them have not defected from Labour: only 17 % of UKIP voters voted Labour in 2010 (the same amount who voted Liberal - Democrat), compared with 45 % who voted for the Conservatives.

A clear majority of voters (59 - 21) say all candidates for state office should sign a pledge in support of a nonpartisan independent redistricting commission — a victory for both former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, whose PAC, New York Uprising, is pushing candidates to do just that; and also for AG Andrew Cuomo, who is calling for citizens and candidates alike to sign his reform pledge.

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.»

Fulani noted there are «nearly one million independent voters, the majority of whom are Black, Latino and Asian, who are locked out of the decisive first round of voting» because of the closed - primary system in New York that only allows enrolled members to cast ballots in intra - party contests, adding: «That is what some like to call an inconvenient truth.»

In fact, the Vermont senator and former presidential candidate is the only politician in the county who is liked by a majority of voters.

What matters to me is not so much the coalition between the parties, but how to create the coalition of voters who will elect a Conservative government with an overall majority.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

Senate Republicans, who are currently holding on to a thin majority despite a massive disadvantage in voter registration, have dangled the possibility of a constitutional amendment as a possible compromise, in exchange for a degree of latitude in this year's process.

Aggressive, because he hopes that it will put pressure back on Labour to either back English votes for English MPs and therefore nobble themselves in a future government, or refuse and be at odds with a majority of English voters who back such a measure.

«Women are actually the vast majority of voters in New York State, and I don't think we should be pigeonholed in a separate party,» said Scharff, who is also executive director of Citizen Action of New York.

I personally am more frightened by the prospect of a continued Repub majority in Congress as they lurch further and further to the extreme right than I am by the excesses of the Dems, who can always be held in check by the combination of a robust Repub minority, independent swing voters and people who are simply fed up with the size and inefficiency of our government on all levels.»

A majority of voters — 57 percent — said Cuomo's doing an excellent or good job as governor, compared to 33 percent who say he's doing a fair or poor job.

By an overwhelming majority, (85 - 12), voters support the repeal of the «last in, first out» rule governing teacher layoffs, agreeing that the decision governing who loses a teaching job should be based on performance and not seniority.