Sentences with phrase «of voter groups»

Merlin allows the party to combine information about a local area gathered from canvass sheets with Mosaic — a subtle classification of voter groups developed by the research firm Experian, which gives a detailed breakdown of 65 consumer «tribes» such as «cafe bar professionals» and «high spending families».

Not exact matches

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

It's difficult to know until a group of unelected officials is forced to do some radical things that a critical mass of voters dislike.

Fifty - four percent of self - identified liberals sided with Sanders, while the smaller group of self - identified moderate Democratic primary voters cast their ballots for Clinton.

The findings of racially motivated mapmaking satisfied Democrats and minority rights groups, who are now pushing a separate federal court in Texas to determine that the voter ID law was also crafted with discriminatory intent.

Democrats and civil rights groups called it an example of the Reagan administration intimidating black voters.

The nonprofit group Fight For The Future launched HelloVote on Thursday morning with the goal of boosting voter registration in several key battleground states by allowing voters to register directly via text message or Facebook Messenger.

But, Trump boasts a large group of voters who will stand by him no matter what, and at least a sizable number happen to be women.

Financial group Standard Life, which employs 5,000 people in Scotland, added to the jitters, announcing it is ready to move parts of its business to England if the Yes voters win.

While those groups were well - known to most voters, one of the groups that joined the counter-protesters was a relative mystery to many Americans.

Denise Feriozzi, deputy executive director for Emily's List, said that millennial women are a «hugely powerful group of voters,» and that the ad campaigns are specifically targeted toward building long - term support through brands and outlets that they identify with.

At a private event in New York earlier this year, Jess McIntosh, former vice president of communications for Emily's List, discussed the group's desire to reach new millennial voters and members who consume news and form their political views outside of traditional media.

The party's anti-immigration and anti-European Union stance is resonating with voters amid a climate of fear of terrorism and social instability, especially after last month's attacks, for which the Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility.

Dylan Ball, ACA Executive Vice President Templeton Global Equity Group European markets were largely pricing in the victory of Emmanuel Macron, and voters delivered.

Its report about Facebook covering the period from 2015 to 2017 — a time during which Cambridge Analytica may have tapped Facebook data to create «psychographic» profiles of voters — found that Facebook's privacy controls «were operating with sufficient effectiveness,» according to copies of its reviews obtained through open - records requests by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a watchdog group.

As Cambridge Analytica's actions revealed, those groups will use data for startling purposes — such as targeting very specific groups of voters with highly customized messages — even if it means violating the policies and professed intentions of one of the most powerful corporations on the planet.

«A full 70 per cent of eligible voters in this age group cast their ballots in the 2004 election... Zoomers own the ballot box.»

«That is an explicit acknowledgment that this payment was about the election and was about hiding information from voters immediately before the presidential election,» said Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation at watchdog group Common Cause, which filed a legal claim over the payment.

Our partner groups Voters Taking Action on Climate Change and Communities and Coal are in court this week, arguing bias in the Port of Vancouver's decision to approve the controversial Fraser Surrey Docks coal project.

The bottom line is that the American public is being fed a carefully crafted mythology (no doubt «market tested» on «response groups» to see which images fly best) to mislead the American public into misunderstanding the nature of today's financial problem — to mislead it in such a way that today's policies will make sense and gain voter support.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to «drain the swamp» of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called «race realism,» he recounted.

The Canadian firm is suspected of having pocketed more than $ 4 million from assorted pro-Brexit groups for using Facebook data to identify voters whose decision was susceptible to influence.

Cambridge Analytica's data told Tillis to highlight Hagan's absences on the Senate Armed Services Committee to reach a certain group of voters.

For their movement to have a political impact, leaders will have to motivate what has historically been a less group of voters.

The performances are that undeniable, and I think they will resonate strongly with the actors» branch, the biggest group of voters in the Academy.

The suit's claim that Trump knew about the payment and that it was aimed at keeping the affair from voters «confirms what we suspected,» said Paul Ryan, a top lawyer with Common Cause, one of the groups that have lodged complaints with the Federal Election Commission about the payoff.

When the nation's leading business group can form an explicit alliance with one of our two major parties and solicit unlimited donations from anonymous donors, individual voters and small businesses should be worried that their voices will be shut out.

This will require candidates to build broad support in 87 constituencies across the province, rather than relying on the ability to sign up large groups of voters in concentrated regions.

Over at Pine Trails Park, down the street from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, a group of mothers of children too young to walk out spent the day signing up new voters with representatives from the League of Women Voters and getting anyone interested to sign various petivoters with representatives from the League of Women Voters and getting anyone interested to sign various petiVoters and getting anyone interested to sign various petitions.

A joint study of the voters» rolls by electoral reform groups Bersih and Engage found some cases in which dead voters were re-registered, and one voter whose birth year was listed as 1897

KUALA LUMPUR - Electoral watchdog groups in Malaysia said on Thursday the voter list for next week's general election had major flaws, including the existence of a 121 - year - old voter, raising the spectre of possible fraud.

The groups highlighted 10 major irregularities they said affected hundreds of thousands of voters nationwide.

A press release from Cambridge celebrating its Ogilvy Award win featured a statement from then - senior vice president Emily Cornell: «Our team was able to identify a key group of undecided women voters in the final months leading up to the Election Day,» she said, «which ultimately led to «Can't Run Her House» — one of the most successful ads of the cycle.»

Identifying which voters could be swayed in their decision - making, and then focusing on this smaller group at the expense of the broader electorate, is basic strategy.

Religion News Service: Black pastors move to counter new voter ID laws African - American clergy are joining forces with civil rights groups to push for increased voter registration ahead of the November election, spurred on by new voter laws they say restrict opportunities for minorities to enter the voting booth.

Voxovreeson The art, then, is to either find enough voters that share your narrow self - interests, or fake enough interest in the narrow self - interests of a large enough group to ensure being elected.

Americans with no religion are the fastest - growing «religious» group in the country, with a recent Pew survey finding that such voters represent 20 % of the population.

«Nice CNN Obama PR piece trying to get a last grasp at another group of voters.

Ralph Reed, the leader of conservative group the Faith & Freedom Coalition, planned a Wednesday morning press conference to release his data about what he called the enduring influence of «values voters.»

Black Protestant voters diverge from the much larger group of white evangelicals, who make up one out of five registered voters and one out of three Republicans.

Is there any sane voter who believes that religious groups should have any input into the selection or election of politicians.

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.

@Howard — As a republic, which is a version of representative democracy, it means we do not have a true or direct democracy where each law would be voted on by each citizen, but an elected representative for larger groups of people that gets to cast the vote, which may or may not at times represent the will of the voters who elected the representative.

Nice cnn obama PR piece trying to get a last grasp at another group of voters.

In March, the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life saw a first in its ten years of polling: the largest group of voters in its survey, 38 %, said that politicians are talking about religion «too much» right now.

The white voters who actually showed up were the most Republican - leaning of any group of white voters since 1988.

In November 1992, the voters of Colorado, in a referendum, foreclosed to legislatures at all levels the authority to treat gays and lesbians on the same plane as groups that have suffered discrimination based on race, religion, and gender.

Or a person or group can try simply to overwhelm the larger community: get 51 percent of the voters to impose laws based on their factional understandings.

Elect Voters At the outset of his thoughtful «The Evangelical Voter» (February), John G. West complains that the Romney campaign did not do more to cultivate Evangelical support while it did establish «outreach groups» for Catholics and Jews.