Sentences with phrase «many swing voter»

With a polarized electorate, both parties believe they benefit more by turning out core supporters than from courting a shrinking group of swing voters.

While the money is modest compared with that donated by fossil fuel interests, the support provides GOP candidates with added credibility on clean energy, an issue polling shows swing voters care about.

And yet, many journalists ignored obvious evidence that Comey's letter had swung voters against Clinton, he says.

Considering Trump has convinced voters that he's qualified for the position based on his experience as a businessman, an endorsement from Bloomberg, a successful billionaire businessman, could help Clinton win over some voters, especially swing voters and moderate Republicans wary of a Trump presidency.

Northam talked up bipartisanship in foolish pursuit of nonexistent swing voters and thereby demoralized the Democratic base.

The danger for Mr. Romney is that if these charges go unrefuted, they could discourage swing voters from going for him this fall when they decide whom to support.

«Certainly those 10 to 15 percent who have always bought into that (populist rhetoric) think it's great but the rest, the swing voters who may have gone with the populist last year, I think aren't going with them anymore, particularly in Germany,» he added.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to issue the final rulings of its current term on Monday, amid talk that swing voter Justice Anthony Kennedy is considering retirement.

Indeed, the Trump transition team released a statement in December that appeared to cast doubt on the CIA's findings that Russia had meddled in the election with the specific purpose of damaging Clinton's candidacy and swinging voters towards Trump.

Facebook has faced a global outcry and sharp questions about its privacy safeguards after reports revealed that an independent researcher passed information covering some 50m users to the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which were then used by Donald Trump's campaign team to target swing voters in the 2016 presidential election.

The Nevada Senate race and all of the House races are among the most competitive in the country, and all figure to be influenced heavily by suburban swing voters.

If Democrats can really use this issue to further energize college - educated, white, suburbanite swing voters, especially women, it will suggest the cultural shift on this issue is enduring.

And the brouhaha shifts the national discussion to divisive social issues that could repel swing voters rather than economic ones that could attract them in a climate of high unemployment and stumbling recovery, the GOP officials said.

There... for... swing voters.

No matter the audience (the Massachusetts electorate of 2002, the Republican party base of this summer's primaries, or the average American swing voter this fall) and no matter the topic (abortion, health care, gun control, the tax code), Romney seeks first of all to sound agreeable.

Representing more than a quarter of the electorate and voting with the winner of the popular vote in every presidential election since at least 1972, Roman Catholics are quintessential swing voters.

Garrison and Sumner were never going to get the vote of the swing voter in Illinois or Pennsylvania.

He argued against the evils of slavery with eloquence, but his policy agenda was modest and aimed at the swing voters of the Midwest.

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.

Lincoln carefully chose the ground that united swing voters with anti-slavery opinion and tried to build out from there.

Given that Gardner had a disciplined and well - funded campaign, this was never going to convince the swing voters that Udall needed.

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

That means that any candidate that wins their support must seem to have a plausible chance to win over enough swing voters to win the presidential election.

Ronald... you are not doing any favors for «Romney / Ryan 2012» by saying something ignorant and then stating your support for them In fact, I think you are motivating the swing voters more than anyone else — no educated person would honestly say they agree with your statements or opinions.

The working - class swing voters have to be won over.

Recognizing that wining over working - class swing voters (or non-working-class voters with many struggling people in their social networks) requires, at minimum, addressing the everyday concerns of those voters — and recognizing that the fates of American working - class voters of all races and ethnicities are linked.

This strategy would seek to cement a coalition between orthodox conservatives and working - class white swing voters who have never been fully comfortable with conservative small government politics.

Another path is to try to become an American version of the U.K. Independence Party and seek to combine those who oppose the current version of «comprehensive immigration reform» with white swing voters who are alienated from both parties.

They were also blind to the reality that, while people might have been unhappy about elements of Obama's foreign policy and would be willing to trade up to something better, most swing voters would, if faced with a constrained choice, prefer the mistakes of Obama to the mistakes of George W. Bush.

They are more like swing voters who have to be brought along with clear messages — preferably using images as well as words.

Meanwhile, as the Republican party was courting swing voters with strong anti-abortion sympathies, these voters saw in great value in consolidating their political power into support for one party.

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.

As the electorate becomes increasingly polarized, we need to do something to allow at least some moderate swing voters in to vote on legislation.

It turns our elections into lotteries that depend on a few thousand swing voters in marginals.

Emerging serious divisions within the Labour Party and his strategy of positioning the party on the hard left will not play well with swing voters.

Seats would be won by convincing voters across the constituency, not just targeting action at a few swing voters.

The latter seeing the need for concessions on some issues in order to win over swing voters and get into power.

Of those Republican appointees, four were considered swing voters at some level (John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Anthony Kennedy).

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.

The priority should be to target swing voters rather than planning alliances with other parties.

When BritainThinks asked swing voters in Watford their expectations for 2018 in focus groups earlier this year, they painted an almost universally gloomy picture of uncertainty, anxiety and division — in fact, it feels like the only thing we have to be proud of as a nation is the Royal Family.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

«Imagine, for example, tailored advertisements created for individual «swing voters» (selected automatically through profiling), pointing out a party's positive steps in the policy areas that are most likely to interest them (also selected automatically), omitting those areas where party policy doesn't fit, and couching it in a language appropriate to the individual's ethnic, educational, cultural and linguistic background, illustrated with a few appropriate news TV clips, and playing background music exactly to the individual's taste and voiced over by an actor that profiling reveals that individual likes?

In dozens of conversations with swing voters, there's no evidence of real animosity — unlike in the early 2000s.

In my experience in focus groups with lower middle class and affluent working class swing voters, people are obsessed about two things: the NHS; and welfare.

The swing voter with an unusual demographic profile can suddenly be identified.

As one swing voter said, «they're frightening — if they came into power they would just spend».

Most swing voters aren't persuaded by the case for near - revolution; but they are persuaded by more money for the NHS, opposition to so - called education cuts, and changes to tuition fees.

When asking swing voters which of the two leaders would be better at improving public services and the NHS, the answer is clear: Corbyn, of course.

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.