However,
the message from voters was clear: candidates can support the charter school movement and the 64,000 Illinois students it represents and get re-elected.
«But there is a tough love
message from voters: they value and trust teachers and want them to have more resources, but they also want real accountability for student outcomes.»
David Cameron said he understood
the message from the voters, who he said wanted the government to work harder on issues such as welfare and immigration reform.
Cameron said he understood
the message from the voters, who he said wanted the government to work harder on issues such as welfare and immigration reform.
Both parties need to understand that Kaminsky's win was
a message from voters that corruption must end.
The former reality - star's surprise win is
a message from voters who think the country is headed in the wrong direction, said Antoniello, the first party chairman in the city who gave him support.
API President and CEO Jack Gerard discussed the polling data and
messages from voters to policymakers in Tuesday's election during a conference call with reporters.
Not exact matches
In a Wall Street Journal editorial today, Rove beseeches the Romney campaign to go on offense with an effective
message that reminds
voters that the Democrats» negative campaign strategy merely aims to distract
voters from the Obama administration's dismal economic record.
The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset
from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data
from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data
from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with
voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M
voter records for targeting
voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft
messages to
voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.
The lawsuit highlights an ongoing series of troublesome allegations surrounding Hitt, whom we featured last week after a series of social media
messages from Hitt's account to a private citizen offers cash in exchange for driving
voters to the polls last November.
From Patten's perspective, Trump's economic
message on free trade and on jobs will resonate with all - important middle - class swing state
voters.
Others in the progressive faith worlds, meanwhile, say Democrats - including President Barack Obama - have shied away
from the faith - based
messaging that they honed in the years after the 2004 election, which was seen to be determined by so - called values
voters.
But it's a long way
from these practical applications of political data to some sort of grand - scale slicing - and - dicing of the electorate to allow a politician to deliver individual
messages to every individual
voter, each
message designed to persuade that one person.
Of course, Jones has been blitzing the airwaves too, but targeted targeted outreach can deliver specific
messages to black Alabamans that might risk blowback
from white
voters if they were broadcast widely.
From Facebook, to amateur content from supporters on campaign websites, email and text messaging, US candidates have successfully sought to draw voters into a political conversation, giving them a stake in the campaign, and a voice in how the campaign should be
From Facebook, to amateur content
from supporters on campaign websites, email and text messaging, US candidates have successfully sought to draw voters into a political conversation, giving them a stake in the campaign, and a voice in how the campaign should be
from supporters on campaign websites, email and text
messaging, US candidates have successfully sought to draw
voters into a political conversation, giving them a stake in the campaign, and a voice in how the campaign should be run.
Two cases in point
from the Obama side: super.del.egates.us is a wiki - based contact list for
voters to use to reach the precious unpledged delegates to the Democratic Convention, while Yrmomma4obama aims to help young
voters (and those too young to vote themselves) to use text
messages to persuade their friends and family to jump on the Obama bandwagon.
Unless they know who they know, organizations miss a huge opportunity to get their
messages in front of their targeted decision - maker — whether that be an average
voter in Ohio, or the senior Senator
from Ohio.
But with seven days to go before elections, the television advertising market is swamped with political
messages from all corners, marking a challenge for campaigns that need to distinguish themselves among undecided
voters.
Instead of sending out generic
messages from the candidate, why not recruit and train volunteers to work with the people on the
voter list who are in their neighborhoods?
Democratic insiders say Nixon's chances are still slim, but especially so if she doesn't make inroads with crucial black
voters, a bloc
from which Cuomo has enjoyed healthy support in recent years and with whom progressives like Bernie Sanders failed to garner support with their more class - focused economic populist
messages.
The «psychographic» picture Cambridge ostensibly provides to a campaign is the ability to tailor a specific
message based on personality type — angry, fearful, optimistic and so forth — rather than simply aiming ads at
voters from likely convivial candidates.
As Tim Wu's fascinating book The Attention Merchants suggests, this all makes it more complex for anyone selling anything —
from commercial goods to political candidates — to get their stories and
messages in front of potential customers and
voters.
A little behind - the - scenes database work can put a negative
message in front of a carefully chosen group, keeping it away
from other
voters who might be offended by the its tone and also saving the campaign money.
But as it had in most other House battlegrounds this year, the Trump - heavy
message from Democrats failed to resonate with enough
voters.
He highlighted «substantial common ground» on the economy, and on the «very strong
message»
from the
voters on electoral reform.
Established media, state radio and tv and the political class had only a walk - on role in forcing the referendum which they collectively opposed: it was the victory by UKIP in a national election (the 2014) European Elections), social media, youtube and the spreading of the
message even when it was kept away
from the
voters by the elite that did the job.
Consistent with other Trump campaign figures who denied contact with Russians only to later be exposed as liars, apparently Cambridge Analytica met at least three times in 2014 and 2015 with Kremlin - connected executives
from the Russian oil giant Lukoil, who «showed interest» in using data to target
messaging to American
voters.
Valid signatures for this effort could have come
from any registered
voter, enrolled in a party or not, so any inability to qualify under these circumstances should send a
message loud and clear that this candidacy has no grassroots support,» Latimer said.
As caretaker leader, her instruction that Labour MPs should abstain
from voting against the welfare bill was intended to «send a
message» to
voters.
Your
message is a typical TEAPublican one — district
voters from their real interests!
They need to show a range of support
from across the political spectrum, how they intend to get their
message across to
voters and how they plan to engage with other campaigners on the lead side.
More significant, the choice of this central campaign frame meant several MPs who were willing to be listed as Yes
voters, were unwilling to do anything else which would associate themselves with that anti-politics
message,
from writing opinion pieces in local newspapers to endorsing campaign activities to their own party members.
Fifty - one percent of NYC
voters said they believe Weiner should not resign
from Congress, which he has said he has no intention of doing — in spite of the clear
message being sent by fellow Democrats that they would vastly prefer it if he would make himself scares.
«We need a candidate who can win back that seat
from Terry Gipson,» said Brilliant, adding that the executive committee belives that Serino's
message resonates with conservative Republican
voters in the district.
«The
voters»
message was loud and clear — 83 percent want the Legislature to downsize
from 15 to 11.
«It is outrageous that Bob Turner's allies would resort to jamming our phones in an effort to prevent our campaign
from contacting
voters and getting out the
message about how radical Bob Turner really is,» Weprin campaign spokeswoman Liz Kerr said.
To combat Mr. Sanders's
message, Mrs. Clinton and a lineup of influential New York surrogates, including Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, plan to take
voters down a memory lane of proposals,
from the quirky to the conventional, that she advanced to spur the upstate economy.
Election victories in New York by President Obama, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Representatives Bill Owens & Louise Slaughter, House candidates Sean Patrick Maloney and Dan Maffei and five high - profile State Senate candidates sent a clear
message this week that New York
voters want to stop special deals for the wealthy, invest for the future and protect important programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
from harsh cuts.
Polls have tightened in recent weeks as the leave camp has begun to ramp up its warnings that immigration can only be controlled
from outside the EU and has made personal attacks on Cameron's character, a
message that may appeal to traditional Labour
voters who want to punish the prime minister.
Politicians
from all the main parties have been saying much the same thing: that
voters have sent them a
message, and that they must listen.
«Peter Noordhoek: A
message of fragmentation
from the Dutch
voters to Britain Main Edward Leigh MP: The downtrodden taxpayer should receive the proceeds of growth»
But the new
message — his plan would do more for Upstate than emerging ideas
from Assembly and Senate leaders — signals that part of this year's budget negotiations will focus on winning over Upstate
voters and taxpayers.
I suspect that they will win some of the Labour seats on their target list (and I listed the top 50 in that blog post last summer), but I'm not convinced that there will be that many: their position on Iraq marked them out
from the other two parties at the last election, leading them to the high water mark they reached - but Iraq will not be an issue next year and it is hard to see which
message they could put out which would resonate with
voters in the same way.
At the conclusion, the
message for the public to take away
from this Community Unity Breakfast was the state of Rockland County's current condition can be attributed equally to the inaction of apathetic
voters and to a few unprincipled political operatives.
Nearly two - thirds of registered
voters nationwide received the recorded telephone
messages, which as political calls are exempt
from federal do - not - call rules, leading up to the November elections, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, an independent research group.
On one hand, we're faced with daily news
from insiders attesting to the danger and effectiveness of micro-targeted
messages based on unique «psychographic» profiles of millions of registered
voters.
* Embrace the «all of the above»
message on energy policy — that is, getting energy
from a variety of sources, including fossil fuels — as
voters already see Democrats supporting renewable energy development.
This
message garnered the most negative reaction
from likely Democratic primary
voters: «The candidate sponsored charter schools, which take away significant funding
from public schools.»
If used as the starting point for project - based learning, the 2012 election can engage students in thinking critically about everything
from media
messages to
voter rights to public opinion polls.
Yes on 2, despite outspending the «no» camp 2 - 1 couldn't find a
message that worked, and was never able to counter the single argument that most resonated with
voters against charter schools: they take money away
from public schools and the kids who attend them.