Sentences with phrase «number of their core supporters»

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says many politicians believe it's safer for their chances to be reelected under the present system, when only a small number of their core supporters come to the polls.

Not exact matches

«I give President Trump credit for motivating his core supporters brilliantly — but for every core supporter, he has created a greater number of core opponents who are equally strongly motivated.

He also ridicules the argument advanced by Common Core supporters that the differences in how subjects are taught in different states requires national standardization, noting that the Gates Foundation's namesake «would have a difficult time showing how [Massachusetts and Mississippi]-- or any other two states — treat multiplication of whole numbers in significantly different ways.»

President Obama, along with his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, have been leading supporters of the effort to increase standardized testing, dramatically expand the number of charter schools and push the Common Core standards, curriculum and testing scheme on the nation's children, parents and teachers.

«Crudely extrapolating, the petition supporters include a core of about 200 climate researchers — a respectable number, though rather a small fraction of the climatological community.»

Since the beginning of the development of Segregated Witness, an increasing number of alternative Bitcoin hard fork supporters have criticized the implementation process of soft forks on Bitcoin Core, claiming that Core developers have a complete monopoly over the process.

A large number of bitcoin core supporters are against alternate implementations and don't recommend using them for «serious use because it is currently difficult to determine whether they implement the consensus rules with 100 percent accuracy.»