Sentences with phrase «of going to the voters»

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Last October, Catalonia's leaders defied the Spanish government by holding an independence referendum; 90 % of Catalans voted sí (although only 42 % of registered voters went to the polls).

But with the Republican bill in need of major surgery, the politics for the president are straightforward: Going after the industry, one of the country's least popular, would fulfill a promise he made to cash - strapped voters; it would allow him to highlight the unsavory deal the Obama administration cut with the sector to buy its neutrality during the original consideration of the law; and it would generate tens of billions of dollars Republicans could use to preserve some coverage for the estimated 24 million who'd lose it under their initial proposal.

These local and mayoral elections are unusual because they come just five weeks before voters will go back to the polls for the general election, and slap - bang in the middle of the political parties» election campaigns.

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

Because we thought 82 % or 86 % of voters were going to be over the age of 50, we thought we could use just landlines.

Sure, there's plenty of time for voter's remorse after the fact, but if folks don't like you to begin with, there's not going to be an «after the fact.»

Schwerin went on to say that adviser Minyon Moore had raised tough questions about the wisdom of making the speech because it could «unintentionally end up elevating questions that aren't yet being widely asked and introduce new damaging information, especially super predator, to a lot more voters.»

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Friday it had been the target of a «massive» computer hack that dumped its campaign mails online 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose between the centrist and his far - right rival Marine Le Pen.

Zuckerberg said Thursday that «voters make decisions based on their lived experience,» continuing, «Part of what I think is going on here is people are trying to understand results of the election, but I do think that there is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason that some of them are voting the way they did is because they saw some fake news.

And that means that black women, who were our best voter according to the political people in this campaign, have watched their brothers and their parents, their fathers, and their sons go to jail and get convictions young and be forced into a cycle of poverty.

But with so much data for a campaign to sift through, «you can't go through 30,000 points of data and go: «Did you acquire this piece of data on this voter ethically?»»

On Tuesday, voters in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District went to the polls to elect a new member of Congress.

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.

So if a Republican senator mostly hears from GOP constituents, and these constituents are more likely to be really passionate about the issue since they are on the side that opposes stricter laws, that's going to give the senator a skewed perception of where voters are on this topic.

In Oregon, only 36 percent of voters went to the polls in the 2014 primary, the last non-presidential election year.

«Leave» backer with a year to go to Brexit: «I am never going to vote again» U.K. voter gets disheartened by a watered - down BrexitAs of Thursday, there is now exactly one year to go before Brits actually leave the European Union.

That's an improvement from a historic low in the last provincial election in 2011, when 48.2 per cent of eligible voters went to the polls.

Calling the federal power to annul state regulation or that of other agencies «regulation» is dependent on voters not understanding the bait - and - switch act going on.

In the first such event of a year crowded with European elections, the Netherlands prepared to go to the polls in mid-March, potentially providing an early reading of political sentiment among European voters following several populist upsets in 2016.

The German voters are very much in favor of more fiscal discipline, making it hard for the German government to openly consider any debt restructuring, which ultimately seems like the only way to go.

«The week that Wisconsin voters threw out Russ Feingold, the only step - grandson Fighting Bob La Follette had left in the U.S. Senate, I went to hear an Upper Midwesterner of similar pedigree, Bob Dylan of Hibbing, Minnesota.»

But in the early primary state of South Carolina, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday and candidates working the state furiously this week, local evangelical pastors are using their influence to rally church members towards salvation, not electioneering.

It wasn't like the median voter was going to forget that they disliked Bush's handling of Iraq, or that they would have concluded, from this one attack by an Al - Qaeda affiliate, that Obama's whole approach to terrorism was a failure.

The Church of England has released a special prayer before voters go to the polls for the EU referendum on June 23rd.

How funny... he managed to pause right at the exit of the church door... for all the world to see him... in a perfectly orchestrated photo shoot... 45 days before voters go to the voting booth.

While Silverman warns viewers about being kept out of the polls, introducing herself as «your Jewish friend Sarah,» Jackson, who voiced the recent bedtime story for parents «Go the F**k to Sleep,» rhymes his warning to voters, in a video that's been seen over a million times on YouTube.

The proportion of black prisoners is extraordinary, and recently with the whole question of Florida, the number of black voters who are actually disenfran chised in a number of ways is quite eloquent, I think, as to what's going on in your country.»

If you find yourself in either of these groups of people, please tear up your voter registration cards and not vote until you have gone back to school and learned proper reading comprehension and critical thinking.

Garrison and Sumner were never going to get the vote of the swing voter in Illinois or Pennsylvania.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

That is because the voters that are up - for - grabs in our politics are not going to seek out speeches by politicians, or hour - long pieces of Planned Parenthood videos on YouTube.

The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

Maintaining a «Berryville» on the inside from «collective action problems» and other what - nots of fallen humanity, and protecting it from voters outside of it offended or inconvenienced by it, is going to require a lot of work.

But voters need to rest assured that when I go to Washington D.C., it's the Constitution by which I will make all of my decisions.

Think of the Obama voters you know who don't want their taxes raised, don't think government works very well, and oppose late - term abortion, but who are going to vote for Hillary Clinton because they think of conservative politics as a battle between the grasping rich and the violently racist.

With every election cycle, the number of voters who grew up and went to school before there were national standards for public science education is decreasing.

If voters come to like Mitt along those lines, then they won't, of course, be buying it when the MSM says there that cold and classless ruthless downsizer goes again.

It's a nice idea that latinos and Catholics are getting out the vote to counter racist immigration laws, and black voters are going to recognize the importance of unemployment and foreclosures.

When voters in Florida were approving a lottery, a survey found that the majority believed the lottery was going to pay the major portion of the state budget for education.

Admittedly, I wasn't paying much attention back then, so I'm willing to accept that he transcended the stat line, and if 75 percent of the voters agreed with that, I would go along.

It just goes to show that 23.2 % of those voters are knowledgeably open minded, while 39.4 % of them are bias and that the rest of them voters (37.4 %) are clearly living in a delusional fantasy world.?

I'm not going to argue that this is some grave injustice that needs to be rectified with civil disobedience and letter - writing campaigns, but the difference between how the two players were treated by the Hall of Fame voters is striking.

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?

There is going to be a LOT of bad activity trying to keep new voters and minorities from voting and the call centers will be critical.

Lombard's proposal is one of four park district plans and 14 overall that Du Page voters will decide when they go to the polls Tuesday.

I think the sign off from CRA above says it all... Just like when you read a voter ballot on propositions, I go straight to the source of who is behind the voice, and CRA consistently has used this «trace» argument time and again, just like the chem companies do with the lead in lipstick (I just attended the Teens Turning Green national summit, and found the debriefing almost verbatim to the CRA «counterpoint» above... it's only a «little» lead, not enough to... blahdeblah, times «x» amounts of applications per day times «x» amounts of other products with «trace» amounts, ad infinitum...)

The board of commissioners unofficially decided to go back to voters after representatives of the three largest youth athletic organizations, for baseball, football and soccer, asked them to reconsider the issue.

Three times in the late 1990s the district went to voters to ask for more money to deal with the costs of overcrowding and make ends meet.

Polls in the province show 80 per cent of voters in favour of legalized midwifery, and legalization of the practice in Ontario has turned up the heat to the point where Quebec Health Minister Marc - Yvan Cote warned doctors that if they continue with their obstructionist tactics, he will skip pilot projects and go directly to legalization.

For instance, he discussed the fact that electoral campaigns spend a huge amount of effort building up volunteer lists, email lists and voter target lists, but that the data tend to go away as soon the election is over (particularly if the campaign loses).