Sentences with phrase «more voters feel»

While all electoral systems have flaws and none can offer a «perfect» solution, having a higher number of political parties allows for wider representation of the community's views and could mean more voters feel that their vote counts, which may help engage younger voters.

Not exact matches

Still, many agree that Democrats need to focus on an economic message that appeals more broadly to voters who don't feel the economy is working for them.

May, however, insisted that the spending plans should focus more on working - class voters who feel they have been left behind by globalisation, and who voted in large numbers to leave the European Union in June.

Based on interviews with more than 62,000 registered voters since January, Morning Consult crunched how constituents felt about their home - state senators.

Based on interviews with almost 72,000 registered voters since May, Morning Consult crunched how constituents feel about their home - state senators (see more on methodology here).

According to a Pew Research Center survey of 1,655 registered voters released today, more than half of white evangelicals said they weren't satisfied with their ballot options (55 %), reflecting the feeling of Americans at large (58 %).

But in today's political climate, when establishment politicians fix on trying to find the right policies to appeal to interests, disempowered voters (or perhaps more accurately, voters who feel disempowered) latch on to this promise.

That means, of course, that he's only a Republican when he feels like it, plays to the press more than Republican voters, and prides himself in being too classy to attack Obama.

This story does Romney more harm than good — his religious affiliation should not be in the forefront — voters might feel less inclined to vote for him.

If they finish with an absurd amount of wins — 105 or more — voters may feel obligated to give one of their players the nod.

«With the revisions, the lower cost and the close margin, I felt it was worth one more effort to see if voters would approve a lower dollar amount this time around,» said park board President Maryfran Leno, who voted in favor of putting it back on the ballot.

Many pundits feel Chris Christie did more to promote himself than outline a reason for voters to back Mitt Romney in his keynote address.

More than half of the voters polled by Siena College said they felt the state was moving in the right direction; a steady increase in the number has been since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office in January 2011.

This group of voters feels more insecure and vulnerable than ever.

But most voters still feel that sexual harassment is more a media phenomenon than a growing problem, and a sizable number think politicians accused of it will bounce back into politics.

He ticked off the list of things he felt the Assembly and Senate has failed to do, including two of Gov. David Paterson's policy proposals — a property tax cap (which Cuomo also supports, albeit at a more stringent level) and an FMAP contingency plan — and said voters would be correct if they hold lawmakers responsible for the lack of action in Albany this year.

Several voters at the same polling place said they cast their ballots for de Blasio because they felt he was more in touch with the public and would steer the city in a better direction.

There was little evidence of any equivalent relationship for Remain voters except that those who felt certain to lose were a little more likely to regret voting to Remain.

But the more that staff and key volunteers can do digitally themselves, the better — they're closer to the candidate and the voters, and they're likely to have a better feel for the kinds of content that are resonating.

Furthermore, nationalists realise from surveys of public opinion that most Scottish voters don't want being more left wing to actually cost them anything, thus Sturgeon's modest move is as much as she feels she can get away with.

And voters also feel Hanna has run the more negative campaign.

In each case there was an alternative available that voters felt represented the real values of their party more faithfully than the official nominee.

California voters, having rejected every measure on the special election ballot last November, are feeling in a more positive frame of mind, it seems.

Cuomo said recently the cap has a «built - in relief valve» that lets voters override if they feel the need to raise taxes by more than 2 percent.

«Perhaps simplistically,» a Council of Europe report states, «voters are known generally to prefer faces to institutions, individuals to collectives, the more so if they feel they have had an effective say in exercising a personal preference.»

Which could mean more ads about mosques, and more local campaigns that pivot on voters» feelings about the president.

Just two per cent of voters said they felt more positively towards the Lib Dems after the scandal, while 28 % said they felt more negative.

It is a strong strategy to ask voters whether they feel better off than five years ago — «no», will more often than not be the answer, but it's also not a good look to appear melancholy about falling unemployment figures and risk dictating to people how badly - off they are.

(CNN)- More than two - thirds of New York City voters feel optimistic about Mayor Bill de Blasio's next four years in office, according to a new poll released Thursday from Quinnipiac University.

Not necessarily — a negative anti-government vote counts just the same as a positive vote when it goes in a ballot box and the evidence from 2010 suggests that a large proportion of Conservative voters were driven more by anti-Labour feeling than support for the Tories.

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Appearing on the Independent Party line also could give Foley a boost among unaffiliated voters and some Democrats, who may feel more comfortable voting for him as an Independent line than as a Republican.

Appearing on the Independent Party line also could give Foley a boost among unaffiliated voters and some Democrats, who may feel more comfortable voting for him on the Independent line than the Republican one.

It's thus likely that if one party's voters feel significantly more motivated than the other's than that party would win regardless of which of the two polls more accurately captured likely voters» feelings (both estimated roughly equally turnout among the two parties).

Indeed, one of the reasons why so many voters feel betrayed by Nick Clegg is that, even on the actual result this year, it could be argued that the true consensus was to cut public spending more slowly.

But there is a feeling that many are unaware of Thursday's European and local elections, and there is more social media, and less personal contact, to win voters over.

It is felt he has succeeded a little in getting Cameron and ministers to concentrate more on the issues that they believe voters really care about; but many MPs were shocked at the extent to which this unelected import influenced the July reshuffle, and particularly his role in Michael Gove's defenestration.

Fifty - nine percent of people questioned in the Quinnipiac survey say Paterson doesn't deserve to be elected in 2010, a modest improvement from October, when more than two of out three voters felt the governor didn't deserve a full term.

And in a message for all three parties, more than two thirds of voters - 68 per cent - felt that the parties «could and should set out in far more detail their plans for taxes and spending over the next two or three years».

But we all know the ones voters feel more comfortable with, don't we?

Uncertainty over the future and contradictory political information mean voters in the UK's EU referendum will be swung even more than usual by feelings and biases

In a questionnaire, the McCain and Barr voters reported feeling significantly more controlled, submissive, unhappy and unpleasant after the loss than the Obama backers.

I have often felt like Anne tries to couch her opinions in terms of what the Academy's preferences are or what this monolith of voters would like, but it just seemed to stick out more this time.

Once the nominees are named, voters get to sit on judgement about whether those are deserving nominations or not, whether there are more deserving names that got left off the list, and how each nominations or win would make them feel.

Perhaps more importantly, the film is so visually banal and formally undistinguished that it feels ideally suited for the television sets where most Academy Members and Critics Group Voters end up watching films.

But more and more, especially after the WGA victory for «Get Out,» and the excitement surrounding «Black Panther,» voters may be feeling that Jordan Peele delivered the film of the moment.

But the change lasted for only two years as many voters complained that they had trouble naming more than five; others felt ten was pushing it.

New Survey Shows Majority of Independent Voters Favor Charter Schools, feel Unions do «More Harm than Good»

This is usually how it goes: politician wannabe gets campaign contributions from private sector guy, gets into office, legislates in favor of private sector guy, private sector guy contributes more, politician guy takes vacation in Italy (or goes for a hike on the Appalachian trail)... gets re-elected, the word gets out that he «plays,» more private sector guys contribute to his campaign, voters are pleased to see the name of their representative in print, like the new wardrobe, the new hairstyle, believe all change is good and re-elect the politician again... politician feels the power, creates agency to watch over private sector guy, agency takes fact - finding trip to France... raises taxes on private sector guy, writes legislation that taxes private sector guy if his plant emits CO2 while producing widgets... voters are in awe and re-elect the politician... private sector guy whines, politician makes him ambassador to Taiwan, limits how much the new private guy taking his place can earn, and taxes all widgets so new private guy will make more environmentally friendly ones... voters swoon, pay more for widgets, lose job in widget factory, hate private guy, re-elect their pol... politician buries $ 5 billion aid to Taiwan in next appropriation bill...... kind of makes a case for term limits, doesn't it.

But assuming these responses reflect the feelings of voters nationwide, they contradict a basic notion of modern Republican ideology: More government is almost always bad, especially if the government activity in question looks anything like picking winners and losers.