Sentences with phrase «more voters now»

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They want a change that is significant in relation to a number of issues which are considered a high - priority now by at least 60 percent, and perhaps more, of Italian voters.»

She continued: «The work we're doing now will allow us to continue to reach these voters in future election cycles and hopefully encourage more young women to get involved.»

But that's all the more reason for voters to exercise their own electoral judgment, and now they have new evidence to judge Senatorial sleaze as Mr. Menendez seeks re-election.

Now, as he wages an uphill battle for the Republican nomination, Perry is emphasizing his Christian commitment even more than in the past, trying to line up support from conservative Christian leaders and religious voters nationwide.

We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or working class; whether voter or one of the nearly half of eligible voters that sat out this election.

Without the stats next to Dickerson's name, it's possible that more voters would have erred on the side of history, remembering that Cruz has been excellent for years, now, and vaguely remembering a few highlights they might have seen on MLB Tonight.

Jay Jaffe now describes Morris as «a virtual lock»; he's real close now, and there's definitely a bandwagon effect as candidates who get close c) gain more attention, and d) elicit sympathy from voters who don't want to be the one to keep a guy out.

Baseball players have been exhibiting monumental deficiencies of integrity and character for well more than a century, and it's just now that Hall of Fame voters are going to take those words seriously?

Right now, the Park District does not have the money to do anything with it, and would have to go back to its voters to ask for more money to build a golf course or water park, like they've been talking about.»

Whereas for the last decade or so, voters flocked to the internet to find out more about their candidates or contribute to campaigns, they now spend five hours a day online.

Most digital political professionals will think of voter file / cookie - targeting or IP - targeted online ads when the word «addressable» comes up, but more and more cable and satellite TV providers can now direct ads at specific households based on demographic or voter data.

I see Tom Harris has responded to Denis on his blog: If the government sees a fresh case for adoption of the euro (and I'm not convinced the case is any more compelling now than at any point in the past), then voters will decide whether or not that case is persuasive enough.

Demographically, [Romney's] image among independent voters, the most critical swing group, is more negative now than it was when the primary battle began.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has received a major boost ahead of next May's Holyrood elections as a poll finds more than half of voters now back independence.

«For four months, the voters of the 9th Senate District have been without a representative following the conviction of Dean Skelos, and yet Senator Cathy Young now wants to drag out the certification process for even more months.

A more dramatic twist: Double the size of the House - every district now elects two seats: The final two opponents with the most votes, and each one gets a vote value based on their percentage of the voters, so they loser with 49 % of the vote gets 0.49 votes in the house and the winner with 51 % of the vote gets 0.512 votes in the house - this way the losing side gets represented too.

Pasok is in turmoil as its 43 % at the 2009 elections has now dropped to around 11 % in the opinion polls, with voters blaming the Papandreou - led government for its handling of the deep crisis even more than they blame New Democracy which was in power and increased the deficit substantially from 2004 - 2009.

Now there could potentially arise a problem where voters who are contributing nothing at all to running the government are such a big voting bloc they can end up voting themselves more and more money to be spend on themselves (or whatever pet projects it is that they support).

With Cameron victorious, Scottish voters are now more likely to think that only the SNP can stand up for them, especially since Labour in Westminster is talking about «moving to the centre ground `.

The second major way in which the former Labour now SNP voters are distinct is by being much more left - wing on a variety of economic values and issues.

However, my colleague expressed his suspicion that certain politicians do not want the turnout to be higher, because that would mean that their percentage of the vote would go down as the voters that do not show now are more inclined to vote for their rivals.

Now we see more communities that are suffering from the kind of soft voter suppression that incompetence creates, that the minority communities and new Americans have been suffering for years.»

15th May 2017, The Independent: Tory voters think their party is now more right - wing thank Ukip, poll finds

Pathetic that the Democrats can't form a majority now but Flanagan should step aside and let the voters see if they want the higher taxes and more spending that these Democratic Senators offer, policies that will only drive NY further into decline and get more people to leave.

It's too late now, of course, but a more democratic, voter - centric approach would have been to hold this election in November of next year.

Traditionally strong tactical voters because of the sheer number of seats where their candidate couldn't win, the «yellow surge» means more Lib Dems may now believe their candidate has a chance after all.

On whether or not to allow hydraulic fracturing in New York, voters continue to be split on the issue, but now more voters are opposed to fracking.

The logical consequence of Labour slumping to third place in some polls would be for more Labour voters to start voting tactically just as they once routinely expected Lib Dems to, and the leftwing think tank Compass is now actively debating this idea.

That is why more voters unhappy with Labour are now voting Tory rather than LibDem.

Boundaries have changed in many seats since 2005, and the strength of the Lib Dems means some two - way marginals now look more like three - way marginals: add in the rise of smaller parties such as the Greens, plus highly volatile national polls, and even hardened tactical voters may struggle to work out which horse to back locally this time.

Tenney is now viewed unfavorably (43 percent) by more likely voters than those who view her favorably (42 percent), the new poll found.

New York voters should force the de Blasio administration to sock away more money to cover municipal workers» future health costs, which are now more than $ 90 billion, a legislator said Monday.

Greenberg says it's been a smart strategy, but the governor may now have to spend more time shoring up the support of downstate voters.

The survey of more than 1,000 New York voters by Quinnipiac University shows that although Cuomo appears for now to be in a strong position to win re-election in 2014, 52 percent of the state's voters say he has done a «not so good» or «poor» job of «cleaning up corruption» in Albany.

Democrats, now only one vote shy of a majority in the Senate, say a still - hotly - contested battle between Clinton and Sanders in the spring would produce a huge primary turnout, bringing more voters to the polls for Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, their candidate for state Senate.

Independents is CA now account for more than 23 % of all voters.

New council housing, rail renationalisation and more progressive taxation are realistic redistributive proposals that would reconnect with disillusioned voters, and only Diane has shown the commitment both now and over recent years to carry them through.

53 % of voters agreed that «the Labour Government now appears to be more sleazy than the previous Conservative Government».

It was mentally insane to keep her as leader that after she lost 63 seats and even more so now as she not only had minimal gains this time but she's probably going to lose seats again next time because you won't have African American and Latino voters coming out to vote in such large numbers which was Obama true assets, racial identity politics (not criticizing it, just saying he did it well).

Since that didn't work well enough for the Tories to win when Gordon Brown was the alternative candidate, there is little reason to think the voters would find it more plausible now.

«The premise that exposure equals votes misses that there is also something called qualifications and experience that matters now more than ever, especially to highly educated and informed primary voters,» said a Democratic source with ties to Cuomo.

New York voters should force the de Blasio administration to sock away more money to cover municipal workers» future health costs, which are now more than $ 90 billion, Manhattan Councilman Dan Garodnick said.

The recent economic recovery has reduced voters» concern with the economy, with many now more interested in issues like the NHS and immigration instead.

An independent poll of voters has revealed that more than half are now in favour of scrapping nuclear weapons.

The mayor's approval rating has ticked up amid his concerted effort to convey a more forceful public image, and he now receives positive marks from half of New York City voters, according to a new Q poll.

The challenge for Khan now is to hold on to at least some of the left wing support he has already amassed at the same time as wooing more conservative voters.

There is now a stronger case than ever that MPs should be elected with the support of more than half their voters — as they would be under the Alternative Voting system.

The Sunday Times YouGov poll last weekend show that Lib Dem voters now think Cameron is performing well by 3 to 1, only slightly more than the Tories who think Clegg is doing well.

«We elected a president who's a community organizer and I want a DNC that's a much more activist organization filled with community organizers who can not only get traditional voters but go out and get people who are now at Standing Rock, who are mobilizing to protect choice or equity,» Rybak said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's approval rating has ticked up amid his concerted effort to convey a more forceful public image, and he now receives positive marks from half of New York City voters, a Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday found.