Sentences with phrase «much as voters»

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That was during a follow up to a question of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush about why he's more qualified to lead than the real estate billionaire, who garners as much as 41 percent of Republican voter support in some national polls, which is nearly triple the support for Cruz and four times that for Rubio.

But voters — whether out of poor understanding or personal aspiration — don't seem to be pressing the issue as much as the president would imply.

If he can convince American voters that what they're beholding has as much to do with the egos of the actors as with the egregiousness of his acts, he has inoculated himself against Robert Mueller, and he shapes the movie that's made of this.

For Democrats, who traditionally rely on young voters as a core part of their coalition, the picture isn't much prettier.

Using social media tools, you can learn much about voters and candidates this way, as well as your customers and competitors on an ongoing basis.

If parliament gives its nod, Greek voters will be asked to rule on two complex draft documents that detail a proposal by the country's creditors to unlock aid of as much as 15.5 billion euros for Greece in return for sales - tax increases and pension reforms.

Asked whether the Fed should raise rates, Trump, a billionaire real - estate developer who has spent much of the past few months as the favorite among Republican voters, said it should but would not for «political reasons.»

Which does rather underline CA's priorities in this project: Obtain, as fast as possible, lots of personal data on US voters, but don't worry much about keeping that personal information safe.

As with most Molotov - tossing, it's not clear what the target is or how much damage voters can inflict.

And as much as I'd like to dismiss the folks at the Values Voters Summit as too extreme to be relevant, Huckabee is looking strong in several independent polls as well.

Tea Party supporters are «much more likely than registered voters as a whole to say that their religion is the most important factor in determining their opinions on... social issues» like abortion and same - sex marriage, according to the Pew analysis.

To the extent that Democrats soft - pedal their support of abortion to working - class voters, Democratic party affiliation may not shift public sentiment on abortion as much as Beauchamp suggests.

This goes for all parties, and is as much the «fault» of the voter as the candidate; it won't change because the voter simply won't get smarter.

By contrast, as much as 74 % of GOP voters identify as Christian, according to recent surveys and polls.

Rockefeller's subsequent divorce of his wife and 1963 marriage to the much - younger Margaretta «Happy» Murphy, a mother of four who had recently divorced her husband, cemented in the minds of many family - minded Americans an unpleasant nexus between loose morals and weak support for the military; it marked the forging of a large wedge of voters that now consciously identified itself as conservative and would grow to include Democrats as well as Republicans.

There are too many denominations but when I think of the church as «the people» and with that as individual voters, elected officals and general workers I see folks bringing their Faith into their decision making as much as a woman brings her life experiacnes into her job.

For good or ill, the nomination process today is structured as a marathon; for the race to end almost before it begins would leave voters uneasy and journalists with too much free time, which can only lead to mischief.

But, as Henry Olsen has pointed out, persuadable voters have a much more ambivalent view of the boss.

While I'm a legacy - voter zealot, this doesn't bug me as much as it could have.

The poll also answers other burning questions of our time, such as which golfer his peers would want on his back in a bar fight (hint: it's not Bubba Watson), who has the «prettiest swing» on tour («Not the Americans, that's for sure,» noted one LPGA voter), whether the PGA Tour should ditch Doral because of Donald Trump's controversial positions (nope), and whether LPGA players believe Michelle Wie will win another major (not so much).

Furthermore, Martinez was named to his second All - Star team and finished third in the league in MVP voting, a rank that may, as much as anything, reflect an anti-DH bias among voters.

Being the quarterback for an NFL team is much tougher than being a running back (trust me, I know from experience), and the voters showed that they will reward a play caller even if his stats aren't as great on paper.

To use the example of Sarah Wollaston again, she has received praise since being elected in 2010 for standing up to her party on a number of issues - because her mandate was granted not by what used to be known (before the smoking ban) as the smoky back room, but by a much larger pool of voters in her constituency.

If the voters demanded two incompatible things (like much lower taxes and much higher spending) then no government can deliver both any more than they can define Pi as 3 or abolish the law of gravity.

More recently, Labour MP Andy Burnham characterised the ethos of Britain Stronger In Europe, the official campaign to keep Britain in the EU, as «too much Hampstead and not enough Hull», lamenting the group's inability to appeal to voters in Labour's traditional heartlands.

The elector would benefit from greater choice, fairness and representation - a Labour voter in darkest Surrey as much as an embattled Glasgow Tory.

In one recent survey, 81 % of voters described the parties as «much of a muchness» and only 16 % said they felt there was a real difference between them.

Just as those who give to charity want to see as much as possible of their money go to the intended beneficiaries rather than chief executives» salaries, and investors in companies want to see overhead and administration costs kept down, elected politicians want to show voters that they are running a tight ship.

By elections will acquire considerable significance, as much as they did in the late 1980s and 1980s when leaders» futures were at stake as voters delivered their verdict in a single constituency.

It also shows how the party is very much in the business of trying to poach Labour voters as well as disgruntled Tories.

Therefore electing representatives who the voters believe can be trusted as responsible delegates may represent a much more efficient outcome.

Open preferential voting is a hybrid electoral system which allows voters to either express a rank ordering of individual candidates in the same manner as STV, or to select a list of candidates chosen by a political party, much like a closed list proportional representation system.

It is right that Scottish voters are given as much information as possible about the likely outcome of a «yes» vote.

Also, the Paladino campaign's effort to paint the AG as too much of an Albany insider to reform Albany isn't working so well, as 52 percent of voters polled disagreed with that sentiment.

Brinson is the keeper of a massive e-mail list of much - coveted Christian voters that Huckabee is using to reach and organize people in early - voting states such as Iowa.

According to Ipsos Mori, which has been asking voters the same question at every general election since the early 1980s, 2010 was the first year when as many people said they were voting on the character of the leader as much as they were on his party's policies.

Hence much of the changes that many Argentines credit the Kirchners for having brought about (such as family subsidies, higher employment levels and stronger purchasing power despite rising inflation, as well as access to services and products that the poor were suddenly able to access post-2001) are expected to yield wide turnout among Argentina's poorer classes, without the Frente para la Victoria having to worry about registering — and then turning out — those who might be considered marginal voters in the US.

Not only did the Liberal Democrats alienate left - leaning voters by entering the coalition, but its leaders did as much as David Cameron and George Osborne to brand Labour as spendthrift and irresponsible — Nick Clegg by playing up the comparison between the UK and Greece, David Laws by brandishing the now - notorious note from Liam Byrne.

It, too, ranks voters from zero to 100, but this one doesn't assess voters» characteristics so much as prioritize them based on their susceptibility to the campaign's efforts to modify their behavior.

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

I'm looking for a full sortable list of the results, for every constituency, ideally with as much information as possible: Turnout, # eligible voters, votes for each candidate (both # and %), winning majority (both # and %), etc..

When Evangelos Venizelos was elected as Pasok's new leader last Sunday (18 March) the turnout was higher than expected but it was the older voters, the over 40 year olds, who turned out, much more than younger voters.

According to NY1, he does not have much of a record as a voter, either.

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

The plain lies of the No campaign and senior Tories to confuse the voters as much as possible seems to have paid off.

(The fact that this is often said by people who both regard themselves as working class and voted Conservative at the last election probably says as much about the strength of the Labour brand as it does about the caprice of voters).

Why spend so much time attacking a voter - registration nonprofit, particularly one that had John McCain as a keynote speaker only two years ago?

This «affront to English democracy», as the Conservatives might brand it, might appal voters so much that the Speaker, or the Supreme Court, feels obliged to intervene.

But he also said Cuomo's high approval rating (as much as 68 percent in some voter surveys) shows the relatively new governor is yet to cash in his political capital.

Now it's a sure fire bet that the PM probably intended his message to be viewed broadly by all of society but narrowed as it was in much media reporting, «team Cameron» may not have stopped to consider how voters might react.