Sentences with phrase «many voter groups»

There were worries about Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders» appeal to that historically Democratic voter group.

With optimized charts and averages, PollTracker 2012 follows important swing states, provides key voter group information (independents, gender breakdown, voter subgroups) and offers specific detailed candidate data.

Yet despite its contested meaning, the impacts of migration are keenly felt — or so we are often led to believe — especially among voter groups dissatisfied with a stuttering economic recovery.

These remain way underutilized in politics — mostly because campaigns have yet to realize how well the technologies can pinpoint voter groups.

Every single policy has the support of at least one of the four political parties» voters, while no voter group is universally opposed to all policies.

Furthermore, our legislators play favorites to some groups by using «member items,» which are nothing more than legalized bribes, to grant money to for specific voter groups in their home districts.

Balls has now signalled an abandoning of the direct interests of this key voter group.

Merlin allows the party to combine information about a local area gathered from canvass sheets with Mosaic — a subtle classification of voter groups developed by the research firm Experian, which gives a detailed breakdown of 65 consumer «tribes» such as «cafe bar professionals» and «high spending families».

Bartley referred to the fastest growing voter group in Essex County as «the blanks,» or those without party memberships.

AFP has 116 staff members on the ground targeting 9 million voters the group has found to be «up in the air» about how to assess Obama's economic record, said its president, Tim Phillips.

Well Labour needs a much higher and more active membership than the Tories because core Tory voter groups are the kind of people that can be relied on to go to the polls and put a cross next to the Conservative candidate without any prompting.

Still, private surveys showed that education was an important issue for many swing voter groups then and has remained remarkably steady over the past seven years.

In 2008, the same swing voter groups that played such a decisive role eight years before could again provide the margin of victory for the winning presidential candidate.

Indeed, in order to mobilize these voter groups in midterm elections, NextGen and their allies will be forced to spend ever - greater resources on canvassing, texting, social media, and narrowly targeted appeals.23

«The research showed that the vote buying practice had become so endemic that an entire industry of dealers had emerged to broker the voter groups and funders,» the documents said.

Not exact matches

Obama lost big with such rural white voters, but won more votes from woman, minorities and others groups clustered in or near cities.

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

Women have exceeded male voters in every presidential election since 1964, so they are an important group to sway come November.

It's difficult to know until a group of unelected officials is forced to do some radical things that a critical mass of voters dislike.

Fifty - four percent of self - identified liberals sided with Sanders, while the smaller group of self - identified moderate Democratic primary voters cast their ballots for Clinton.

The findings of racially motivated mapmaking satisfied Democrats and minority rights groups, who are now pushing a separate federal court in Texas to determine that the voter ID law was also crafted with discriminatory intent.

Democrats and civil rights groups called it an example of the Reagan administration intimidating black voters.

Trump's flagrant insults and racism directed toward minority groups makes him an anathema to young voters.

In September 2011, the Obama campaign launched Operation Vote, which focused on eight target groups: women, blacks, seniors, Hispanics, Asian - Americans, Jews, gays, and young voters.

The NRCC ran ads against Lamb telling voters he would be identical to Pelosi if he made it to the House, which other Republican groups piled on in the weeks leading up to Election Day.

In recent years, immigrant rights protests shrank as groups diverged and shifted their focus on voter registration and lobbying.

The nonprofit group Fight For The Future launched HelloVote on Thursday morning with the goal of boosting voter registration in several key battleground states by allowing voters to register directly via text message or Facebook Messenger.

But, Trump boasts a large group of voters who will stand by him no matter what, and at least a sizable number happen to be women.

Going along with anti-establishment and populist sentiments, Eurasia Group says politicians could be forced by voters «to shift toward a more zero - sum approach to global economic competition and to look as if they're doing something about lost jobs.»

Financial group Standard Life, which employs 5,000 people in Scotland, added to the jitters, announcing it is ready to move parts of its business to England if the Yes voters win.

While those groups were well - known to most voters, one of the groups that joined the counter-protesters was a relative mystery to many Americans.

Kathryn Harrison, a board member at Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, says her group's goal isn't to shut all that down, at least not all at once.

Denise Feriozzi, deputy executive director for Emily's List, said that millennial women are a «hugely powerful group of voters,» and that the ad campaigns are specifically targeted toward building long - term support through brands and outlets that they identify with.

The group recognizes that in order to maintain its status as a heavyweight among Democratic voters and supporters in future elections, it needs to engage online.

At a private event in New York earlier this year, Jess McIntosh, former vice president of communications for Emily's List, discussed the group's desire to reach new millennial voters and members who consume news and form their political views outside of traditional media.

The party's anti-immigration and anti-European Union stance is resonating with voters amid a climate of fear of terrorism and social instability, especially after last month's attacks, for which the Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility.

Dylan Ball, ACA Executive Vice President Templeton Global Equity Group European markets were largely pricing in the victory of Emmanuel Macron, and voters delivered.

Its report about Facebook covering the period from 2015 to 2017 — a time during which Cambridge Analytica may have tapped Facebook data to create «psychographic» profiles of voters — found that Facebook's privacy controls «were operating with sufficient effectiveness,» according to copies of its reviews obtained through open - records requests by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a watchdog group.

Cambridge Analytica is a shady company owned by the British firm SCL Group — and, reportedly, in part by the right - wing - funding Mercer family — which claimed it could build models that identify persuadable voters by using six key personality types.

As Cambridge Analytica's actions revealed, those groups will use data for startling purposes — such as targeting very specific groups of voters with highly customized messages — even if it means violating the policies and professed intentions of one of the most powerful corporations on the planet.

«A full 70 per cent of eligible voters in this age group cast their ballots in the 2004 election... Zoomers own the ballot box.»

«That is an explicit acknowledgment that this payment was about the election and was about hiding information from voters immediately before the presidential election,» said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a legal claim over the payment.

Our partner groups Voters Taking Action on Climate Change and Communities and Coal are in court this week, arguing bias in the Port of Vancouver's decision to approve the controversial Fraser Surrey Docks coal project.

The group is using that sophisticated technology in a door - to - door campaign to turn out Republican voters in the midterms.

The bottom line is that the American public is being fed a carefully crafted mythology (no doubt «market tested» on «response groups» to see which images fly best) to mislead the American public into misunderstanding the nature of today's financial problem — to mislead it in such a way that today's policies will make sense and gain voter support.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

Cambridge Analytica worked with a Washington, D.C. - based consulting company, The Herald Group, to promote the NRA's «Trigger the Vote,» aimed at registering voters and getting them to the polls.

The company has been lambasted by public officials and others for spreading false stories, and for allowing Russian - linked groups to use its platform to potentially sway voters during the 2016 election.

Ryan's congressional campaign committee gave $ 50,000 to Give Voters a Voice, the main group behind an effort to qualify a repeal measure for the November ballot, according to documents filed by the campaign.