Sentences with phrase «most of their voters»

Boehner's Machiavellian cleverness in allowing the little guy — and especially the little self - employed guy — to feel some — but not too much — pain was a fine way to remind the president that he really can't get away with a tax increase that actually hits most of the voters.

The conservative health care message most of these voters have heard can be summarized as «socialized medicine is bad + tort reform is good + so anyway, back to more important things like capital gains tax cuts.»

Not with all the steroid guys still on the ballot and the introductions of Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Frank Thomas (and everybody also mentions Mike Mussina, but he'll be just an afterthought for most of the voters).

As I have said before, in a General election most of these voters will come back to Labour if they think the Tories will take charge.

«Most of the voters will not turn out and the polling station executives will not be active as compared to their opponents.»

The old school party bosses were state legislators and local district leaders, who usually lived within walking distance of most of their voters.

do away with so - called «winner take all» elections in which the «winner» does not have the support of most of the voters, and replace that system with instant runoff voting and proportional representation, systems most advanced countries now use to good effect;

The district was altered in this year's redistricting to include parts of the Bronx and, for the first time, most of the voters in it are Latino.

Helen Kiggins Walsh, the Onondaga County Board of Elections Commissioner, told The Daily Orange most of those voters did not follow the instructions properly.

If «Superman» is low on this list, that has to be because most of our voters don't really view it as science fiction: sure, it kicks off with the destruction of an alien planet, but the superhero movie has now become its own genre, largely divorced from those that bore it.

Not exact matches

At least part of the reason why Trump was seen as a joke — even after it was obvious that he had a broad level of support — is that most mainstream media outlets underestimated his appeal with U.S. voters.

According to a new Washington Post - Schar School poll, 50 % of likely voters support Jones and 47 % support Moore in their race to fill a Senate seat most recently vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Deprivation angered Greek voters, destroying any possibility of building a broad consensus on sensible economic reforms — such as creating a tax system that would force the some of the world's most notorious tax dodgers to contribute to the running of the government.

In fact, there are many credible ideas that address voters» most significant concerns and appeal to a broad swath of Democrats, Republicans, and independents.

With it, the state could pay for most of a $ 25 million bond for affordable housing that voters may be asked to approve this fall.

The most formidable primary threat would be someone who could plausibly make a claim on a non-trivial segment of Trump voters — i.e. not someone who has opposed him from the beginning and throughout.

While their contributions as pivotal voters have gone largely unacknowledged, Ohio black voters, in particular, have pulled more than their weight for Democratic victories in one of the most highly contested states in the Electoral College.

«But Clinton is convinced that most American voters did not intend to greenlight a radical anti-govenrment agenda and were appalled by the near default on U.S. debt and the downgrading of U.S. Treasuries.

The movie is a love letter to the forgotten musical (remember, most of the Academy voters are on the older side), the creativity of the story by writer - director Damien Chazelle is incredible, and the performances by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are some of the best of the year.

Since most politicians» campaigns are largely funded by wealthy companies and individuals, it would give voters a better sense of who the candidate they are voting for is actually representing if the company's logo, or individual's name, was prominently displayed upon the candidate's clothing at all public appearances and campaign events.

«Ordinary voters understand what inflation is,» wrote University of Western Ontario economics prof David Laidler in a 2007 paper, «and most of them don't like it.»

According to a poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, nearly a third of GOP voters, 31 %, listed the situation with North Korea as the most important issue for congressional candidates to discuss in their upcoming campaigns.

Most voters don't expect to receive protection from the military for free, or demand that others to pay for the Department of Education, Medicare transfers to the states, and all other federally - funded programs.

More than four out of 10 GOP voters (42 percent) listed security as their top issue in Morning Consult's most recent poll, compared with 20 percent of Democrats and 26 percent of independents.

Morning Consult's state - by - state breakdown of minimum wage supporters shows that California voters aren't necessarily the most enthusiastic about a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage.

According to the most recent survey, 41 percent of Republican voters have a favorable view of her, while 36 percent have an unfavorable view of her.

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.

The real estate mogul has cannily understood that despite polling that indicates most Americans see free trade as more of an opportunity than a threat, a large and motivated minority of voters have been yearning for a politician to call into question whether the trade deals we have on the books are good for American workers.

Seventeen percent of voters in the most recent poll remain undecided.

Trump's explanation of where the jobs went was simple enough to resonate with even the most low - information voters: They went to Mexico and China, shipped there by politicians who cut trade deals tailored to benefit multinational corporations, not American workers.

Most people probably don't care, but it should bother voters that there is a whole set of rules that place some private investment offerings that may offer superior returns off limits because the government basically deems you to be poor.

Italian elections are due to take place during the first half of 2018, and have the potential to deliver another political upset, although recently there have been signs that populist parties — most notably the Five Star Movement, which according to polls enjoys similar levels of support among Italian voters as the ruling Democratic Party — are toning down their calls for a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone.

Most of all, so what if voters were being «targeted»?

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.

By leading the effort to re-confirm him, the Corporate Democrats (but not most of their colleagues who had to face voters this autumn) removed this albatross from the Republican neck and put it around their own.

A strong majority of voters — including most Democrats — said the U.S. should renegotiate the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran, according to a recent poll.

The Strategic Counsel poll referenced earlier, for example, found that 15 percent of voters ranked the environment as the most important issue, up from three percent in the last election.

While some voters appear to be warming up to the bill, that most of them aren't noticing it might not be the best of signs for the GOP, either.

The League of Conservation Voters» Chieffo singled out three California congressmen for leading on anti-environmental bills, the most sweeping being the «Midnight Rules Relief Act,» sponsored by 15 - year Congressional veteran Issa.

One of the most important questions in the Trump administration's war on the FBI and the recent Nunes memo controversy is how Republican voters would respond to all of it.

There are many important issues to discuss in politics, but on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being most important), the Prime MInisters attire in India ranks about 100 for most voters.

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.

The jailing of the country's most popular politician, Lula, and voter disgust at corruption among the powerful will give outsiders with clean reputations a chance to shine in October elections.

With most of the Catalan leadership either under arrest or having fled abroad, some polls indicated the crackdown by the Spanish government had increased support for independence among voters in the region.

The defection has certainly left a bad taste in the mouths of many Albertans, but the political maneuver removes the most likely alternative that voters had to send a message to the Tories.

The reform's tax competitive stance is likely to be politically palatable because most voters neither understand nor care that the Trump administration's fight for a larger United States share of the worldwide economy might result in a smaller worldwide economy overall.

A press release from Cambridge celebrating its Ogilvy Award win featured a statement from then - senior vice president Emily Cornell: «Our team was able to identify a key group of undecided women voters in the final months leading up to the Election Day,» she said, «which ultimately led to «Can't Run Her House» — one of the most successful ads of the cycle.»

But most polling models assumed the same type of apathy among younger voters that doomed the UK Brexit referendum last year.

The company has said its «psychometric profiles» could predict the personality and political leanings of most U.S. voters.

Most of the 2012 Republican presidential candidates couldn't make a coherent case against Obama / Romney - style health care policy to Republican primary voters ever mind non-Republican young people.