Sentences with phrase «of voter attention»

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Hillary's fiery commencement speech, the first ever by a Wellesley student, won her national attention — a spot in Life Magazine's feature on the class of 1969 and a speaking invitation to the League of Women Voters.

And while that issue is newly top - of - mind for many voters, some bedrock economic policy issues also deserve attention from the candidates during their last in - person exchange of the year:

The competitive contest between Lipinski and Marie Newman, a first - time candidate who won 49.1 % of the primary voters, became a flashpoint for simmering tensions between the national Democratic Party's centrist and liberal wings, drawing months of national attention.

Hacked emails from the personal account of Hillary Clinton's top campaign official show some of the attention her team paid to courting black voters.

Plecas attributed the victory to Kinsella's careful attention to opinion polls, which showed Bennett's message of restraint and fiscal responsibility resonated with voters.

«It gives you an edge in increasing the probability that voters would pay attention to your message,» Shumaker said of Cambridge Analytica's work for the campaign in an interview with Bloomberg in 2015.

Republican presidential candidates might be more trusted by more voters at every level of the income distribution if they focused more of their attention on policies directly impact the working and aspiring middle - classes.

If it was Dick Morris I would just dismiss it as an attention getting stunt from a guy who makes his living reassuring and fundraising from right - leaning voters and knowing he will still get bookings regardless of whether he is right in the end.

Writing at a time when many people were paying attention to the travails of «the Clinton couple of Arkansas,» A. M. Rosenthal, on the Op - Ed page of the New York Times that he once edited, thanked the Clintons for the «gift» of presuming «that Americans have achieved adulthood at last» and delivered himself of this opinion: «I know there are voters who do believe that a President should have what they consider a spotless sexual history.

It is personified by Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP who lost his Oxford seat at the last election substantially because local church members drew voters» attention to Dr Harris» ulterior motives on a variety of issues from abortion to euthanasia.

In fact the invasion served a variety of U.S. purposes including the assertion of U.S. control over the Panama Canal, the diversion of attention away from El Salvador, the economic destabilization of Nicaragua and the intimidation of Nicaraguan voters prior to the election.

Dickerson is clearly having the better season, but I'm a staunch track - record voter, paying more attention to a rolling average of the previous three seasons, give or take.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, I find that (1) it is better to lose later in the season than earlier, (2) AP voters do not pay attention to the strength of a defeated opponent, and (3) the benefit of winning by a large margin is negligible.

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.

Instead of engaging in personal fights and feuds, he shifted his attention to his opponent, the issues and the voters.

«They banked on voters not paying attention as they blocked reforms in almost every area of policy: voting rights, reproductive rights, government reform and more.

Most of our attention should now be focussed on what we do next, and it is on looking to the future that, I would guess, most voters want Vince to spend his time.

«Senate Democrats are desperate to get voters to pay attention to something other than the breathtaking corruption and criminal activity that exists within their own conference, after the State Inspector General turned over the findings of his cash for casinos investigation to the U.S. Attorney's Office so Democrats could be prosecuted for wrongdoing.,» said Reif.

In that regard, any ruling party that is powerful of it's own - i.e., has intrinsic power not derived from voters; a power to stick to ruling despite the changing desires of people - is antidemocratic; so a «democracy through strength» is a danger that might (not always, but a possibility) turn into a dictatorship; and a «democracy through weakness» which is unable to do so and needs to re-estabilish it's power (and right to exist) at every single elections is a preferrable system of governance that would pay more attention towards their people, and be better for the people (as opposed to their own nomenclature).

However the EU is not always at the forefront of voters» minds: although eurosceptics are frequently vocal in their opposition to the EU, the empirical evidence suggests that, overall, European voters don't consider the EU as an important issue unless events bring it to their attention (such as the signing of a new treaty).

It's a classic jujitsu idea — use your enemy's strengths against him, in this case leveraging off of the favorable attention Gerlach has been getting over his puppy bill to point out something that he IS N'T working on... or at least, something that Trevedi would like voters to PERCEIVE that he isn't working on.

Here's one angle of the Brown campaign that hasn't gotten much attention: Brown's folks used free Google online tools to help organize grassroots voter outreach and to collect field data.

As for getting voters» attention, only 36 % of hard - core MySpace and Facebook enthusiasts listed social networking sites as a top way to reach them, comparable with direct mail and only a hair above newspaper and radio advertising!

And it contains demographic and consumer information that allows strategists to form detailed profiles of voters and draw up the right message and use the right medium — Facebook, Gmail — to call attention to a race that few are watching.

Yes, progressive bloggers were vital for getting Lamont attention across the country and no doubt helped bring national news coverage and out - of - state donations, but the campaign itself stayed local: «focused on building a file of likely voters, organizing a turnout effort and circulating Lamont at events, including small gatherings in living rooms.»

Your direct attention to clearing up this very serious matter would be most appreciated by me and, I'm sure, the voters of our town.

And in what can be viewed as perhaps good news for Cuomo, the poll finds most voters, while they are concerned about the high level of corruption in New York politics, are not paying close attention to the machinations of a panel appointed by the governor.

Earlier this week, GOP Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli wrote a letter to Democratic Manhattan Councilman Ben Kallos, chairman of the Council's Government Operations Committee, requesting that the potential of voter fraud stemming from abuse of the IDNYC program receive attention during a committee hearing as well as an evaluation of the program's merits and effectiveness.

It is, of course, true that October 2007's inheritance tax policy had a massive impact on Tory fortunes but it's true that most voters don't pay a lot of attention to policy.

However, you seem to imply that just by announcing the proposed cut (sometime last year I think) it would somehow go directly into the consciousness of voters who aren't political obsessives and so make a difference to the LD ratings The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.

An ad that never ran got plenty of media coverage and took attention away from the issues on which the group wanted to focus voters (though all the attention also boosted the group's membership, so it wasn't exactly a total loss).

As Tim Wu's fascinating book The Attention Merchants suggests, this all makes it more complex for anyone selling anything — from commercial goods to political candidates — to get their stories and messages in front of potential customers and voters.

With Mitt deserves the attention of the voter as it's doing something new, even if the platform wasn't 100 % ready for prime - time.

While most of the election attention has centered on mayoral campaigns, voters on Nov. 7 will also be making a major decision about the common council.

Instagram and With Mitt are delivery vehicles of unique content and deserve voters» attention.

My model of political disruption does factor in that voters don't pay particular attention to the specifics of policy.

The 11th Congressional District special election tomorrow has posed a fundamental challenge for the candidates — getting voters attention and making them aware of the occurrence of the election.

I want Gibson and the Republican leadership to be held accountable for the destructive policies they promote and for Gibson to face a real challenge on the issues and his record and not to give him the opportunity to duck a real fight by diverting voters» attention to a race of personalities.

The attention of Nigerians and indeed, the world shift to Bayelsa and Kogi states of Nigeria today as voters proceed to the polling units to decide who govern them for the next four years.

An increased proportion of voters (45 % up from 35 % in November 2013) think Cuomo is focusing too much attention on national politics and not enough time on the issues facing New Yorkers.

Since he refused to confess to any wrongdoing, this mess will reach its height just as voters start shaking off their summer haze and paying attention in advance of the primaries.

That's a lot for voters to keep track of, assuming they're even paying attention.

Walzak, de Blasio's senior adviser, said that the campaign plans to pay close attention to the mood of all New Yorkers including more begrudging borough voters.

In the spring, 51 % of voters believed Cuomo's attention was focused on New York while 40 % thought he was too concerned with national politics.

We urged them to use the register not only to reach out to voters, but also to check whether there are ineligible persons on the list and draw the attention of the Commission to them.

I believe that the voters will pay attention to a long track record of reform, and community service.»

Breaking down 2010 Liberal Democrat voters by how much attention they pay to politics though shows a fascinating split: 2010 Lib Dem voters who paid a lot of attention to politics were more likely to switch to Labour; people who voted Lib Dem in 2010 but who paid little attention to politics were more likely to split to the Conservatives.

«If voter participation rates are an indicator of the body politics» health, then we have a grave illness that needs our attention,» Miner said, according to a transcript of her testimony from her press office.

It's tragic because there are millions of African - American voters in New York but they get little attention from Democratic pols because these self - appointed «leaders» are a bunch of lazy or corrupt suck - ups whose idea of gaining power for Black people is to ask Party bigshots to guarantee a winning spot on «the ticket» as if this were 1910 and Tammany Hall still ruled.

As a moderate independent the GOP could grab my attention by making the neutralizing of special interests a top priority with publicly financed elections, non-partisan redistricting, universal voter registration, open primaries, etc..