Sentences with phrase «of swing voters»

But the extraordinary number of swing voters suggests the parties have everything to fight for over the next seven days.

This method gets back to the idea of swing voters.

They appreciated that the battle of political ideas at election time was focused exclusively on a minority of swing voters in marginal seats.

In these cases, the Democratic base, the Republican base and the number of swing voters are all close to the national average.

While three quarters of swing voters thought Labour must accept a large part of the blame for the economic situation, most in the Labour movement disagreed.

That is, Rhode Island has a lot of swing voters and a lot of Democratic base voters, but very few Republican base voters.

Three quarters of swing voters say Labour deserved to lose the election.

More than two thirds of swing voters think the coalition's proposed cuts are «unavoidable», compared to less than half in the Labour movement.

Not only does the electoral system work against us, making the whole election contingent on a handful of swing voters in marginal constituencies, but the rightwing media get to call all the shots.

Two thirds of swing voters say Labour will have to change quite fundamentally before they will consider voting for it again, even if they do not like what the coalition is doing.

With a polarized electorate, both parties believe they benefit more by turning out core supporters than from courting a shrinking group of swing voters.

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

My own impressionistic conclusion is that one kind of swing voter — the pseudo-sophisticated, fairly prosperous soft libertarian — is especially repulsed (in a sort of Palinesque way) by Perry's distinctive Texas baggage.

In these cases, where many or most of the swing voters side with Democratic base voters, the Democrat will win by a wide margin.

A majority of swing voters think the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition is the right outcome given the number of seats each party won.

RoadTrip2015's work began with a March 2014 trip to Cannock Chase, a West Midlands Labour marginal where 50 volunteers battled through a hailstorm to the doorsteps of swing voters.

In particular, it acquired the support of swing voters in the marginal constituencies that, thanks to our electoral system, decide elections in the UK.

A large portion of swing voters in District 19 are Independent women.

The reform was, as Clegg is suddenly keen to point out, never the most pressing thing on the mind of the swing voter in Wolverhampton.

It is admittedly unlikely that many of the swing voters of Hendon or Harlow have read Capital (it is a little dry in places).

However, it will be won or lost in the 117 marginal seats we need to win in order to gain an overall majority; and it will be won or lost on the decisions of swing voters in those constituencies.

The Blairite strategy for resolving this problem was both a cynical triangulation towards the priorities of swing voters in marginal constituencies; and a consequent abandonment of any transformative political objectives that potentially challenged the prejudices of that constituency.

If political leaders pay particular attention to the opinions of swing voters, the teachers union may experience some tough sledding in the political arena in the years ahead.

Rhode Island is not a swing state, but it has quite a lot of swing voters.

One of Cameron's main pledges in this election will be to retain an electoral system which forces parties to focus on a handful of swing voters in marginal seats.

Three quarters of swing voters think the Labour government must accept a large part of the blame for the economic problems it left.

More than half (59 %) of all voters, including nearly nine in ten Tories (88 %), a majority of UKIP voters (55 %) and two thirds of swing voters (68 %) expect Cameron to remain in charge.

And how does its view compare with that of swing voters, who supported Labour in previous elections but did not vote for Gordon Brown?

Labour needs to compete and win in the marginals, but can not simply target the 4 % of swing voters.

One is that there are a lot of swing voters, as well as a lot of Reagan Democrat voters, in the Midwest, and therefore I think the national mood hits harder,» said Saul Anuzis, the former Michigan Republican Party chairman.

It means that hundreds of constituencies are effectively pocket boroughs where individual voters count for nothing - the fate of Tories across Scotland and many Labour supporters in south - east England - meaning party machines have adopted the malign practice of devoting their attention to a handful of swing voters, thus effectively disenfranchising tens of millions of people.

«The question is, how useful is highlighting the [climate] issue to pull some of these swing voters over with him?»