Sentences with phrase «of voters based»

Section 25 of the Constitution also contemplates the exclusion of voters based on race.

Clinton also cited the Trump campaign's use of the controversial GOP firm Cambridge Analytica, which boasts of «psychographic» profiles of voters based heavily on Facebook information.

The results of the primary poll clearly indicate what occurs when proper represention of the voter base is accounted for.

which plays well into the demographics of the voter base he is targeting; many of which distrust the Government or any suitably large organisation (which can be warranted given that the US Government engineered the biggest gold theft in history from the US populace) and ongoing cultural divisions between North and South USA.

How do you not understand that publicly disowning a guns rights lobby would alienate more than half of his voter base?

The refrain became a stock response for politicians not wanting to alienate any part of their voter base in last year's midterm elections.

Not exact matches

Considering Trump has convinced voters that he's qualified for the position based on his experience as a businessman, an endorsement from Bloomberg, a successful billionaire businessman, could help Clinton win over some voters, especially swing voters and moderate Republicans wary of a Trump presidency.

It turns out that Eich contributed $ 1,000 to California's controversial Proposition 8, an anti-same-sex marriage bill that passed with broad voter support in 2008, and which became the basis for one of the gay marriage cases argued before the Supreme Court in 2013.

WASHINGTON — President Trump's major policy moves over the course of his first year in office have had a common denominator: They either overtly favor his base of support — the roughly one - third of voters who solidly back him — or they appear to penalize those states that vote Democratic.

Northam talked up bipartisanship in foolish pursuit of nonexistent swing voters and thereby demoralized the Democratic base.

He also fired the enthusiasm of young voters and progressives, two pillars of the Democratic base that Clinton struggled to charm.

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.

Building a border wall, and having Mexico pay for it, was one of Trump's key pitches to his nationalist voter base during the 2016 campaign.

The indictments described the internet tactics of several Russian - based operatives who sought to interfere in the 2016 presidential election through various social media operations that encouraged voters to support Trump, independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Green Party nominee Jill Stein.

The black voters in Philly, and I say this based on 30 years of picking juries and talking to them, are more likely to have a family member who is a police officer, a family member who is in jail, and a family member who has been killed or severely victimized.

Bannon, who was instrumental in focusing the message of Trump's 2016 campaign, was considered the main conduit between Trump and his base of far - right voters.

As Clinton gets closer to securing her party's nomination, Democratic voters believe it is important that she throw a bone to her party's base; 52 percent of them said it is important for her to choose a liberal as her running mate, and 41 percent said that it was important for that person to be from outside of Washington, D.C.

The leaders of the three main London - based parties — all of them unpopular in Scotland — wooed skeptical Scottish voters with the fervour of a rejected lover.

I read a terrific study by Richard Charnin, who is a mathematician, a liberal Democrat, an eccentric but brilliant guy, who concludes on the basis of the exit polls and the actual vote on a precinct - by - precinct basis that the swing can not be that wide without widespread voter fraud.

«While I am not aware of evidence that the 2016 voting process itself was subjected to manipulation, and have no reason to doubt the validity of the election results, we know that the DHS and FBI have confirmed two intrusions into voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois by foreign - based hackers,» Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote in a letter on Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

In the race to advance data - driven electioneering strategies pioneered by successive Obama campaigns, Cruz has turned to Cambridge Analytica for its unparalleled offering of psychological data based on a treasure trove of Facebook «likes», allowing it to match individuals» traits with existing voter datasets, such as who owned a gun.

But Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina argues that targeting voters with ever more personalised messages will shrink the «public sphere», which Jürgen Habermas, a German philosopher, once defined as the basis of democracy.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Alexander Nix, the CEO of the London - based voter profiling company Cambridge Analytica — which harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users without their permission to analyze their voter behavior — has been suspended from his job.

Nix shows how psychographically categorized voters can be differently addressed, based on the example of gun rights, the 2nd Amendment: «For a highly neurotic and conscientious audience the threat of a burglary — and the insurance policy of a gun.»

The more red meat the Conservatives dish out to their base, the more keeping their party out of power next year stands to become a bigger ballot box priority for voters than punishing Trudeau for whatever disappointment he may have inspired.

Students, parents and politicians gathered Wednesday to announce formation of a new, Broward - based organization to push for gun controls and alert voters which officials support — and which candidates oppose — those efforts.

With every passing week, and especially since the party caught a bit of a break in some polls, the Conservative narrative seems to be based on the notion that enough voters have seen the error of their 2015 ways to return the Conservatives to government next year.

Isikoff then dived into the controversy about Russia's role in the election and the role specifically of Cambridge Analytica, a London - based company that uses data mining and data analysis to create so - called psychographic profiles of voters to predict their vote — and which Parscale had hired during the campaign.

My theory (admittedly based on anecdotes) is that some voters may be getting tired of hearing how good the Liberals say they are — all those boasts about how feminist they are, their brave resistance to racism, about how good and decent they are.

Mr. Byfield has been campaigning for more than a year and could make gains if he is able to tap into the base of social conservative voters in this constituency.

The Wildrose had all sorts of fun pandering to their base, but I suspect it helped solidify urban and center voters seeing the Wildrose as the nut bars they are.

The historical success of the PC Party in Alberta between 1971 and 2015 was not based on adherence to conservative ideology but on the ability of its leaders to build a big blue tent of conservative, moderate and liberal voters.

Some possibilities are that Trump voters are more protectionist than the average Republican voter, or that they instinctively back his positions based on a cult of personality, or that Trump is an inherently divisive figure even within the Republican Party and that this extends to his positions on policies.

The former governor, taking advantage of a chance to address a high concentration of Democratic base voters, doubled down on his attack on Wall Street.

These candidates may not have the same natural religious swagger as Perry, but they're clearly seeking faith - based voters in hopes of not being left behind.

These people are are large block of voters and make decisions that affect us all based on these delusions.

No matter the audience (the Massachusetts electorate of 2002, the Republican party base of this summer's primaries, or the average American swing voter this fall) and no matter the topic (abortion, health care, gun control, the tax code), Romney seeks first of all to sound agreeable.

Some political observers say Republican overtures to Israel and to Jewish leaders are aimed more at American evangelical voters, a key part of the GOP base, than they are at Jews.

*********************************** One would hope that voters were casting their ballots on the basis of what they conclude is best for a civil society and a pluralistic population, not on the more egocentric opinions they may have about right or wrong that are derived from their religious beliefs.

Populist conservatives also have to master emerging forms of communication and prioritize winning voters outside of their base.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

Cruz has a chance to unite the Republican «base of the base» with voters who might be open to a middle - class - focused conservative populism.

How would you like it if W h i t e voters only voted for a person's color?I saw a talk show interview the other night.One of the top B l a c k leaders said that he voted for Obama based on his color and asked others to do the same.How crazy is that?

On the basis of election data and demographics, it can be estimated that 70 percent of ELCA voters went for George Bush in 1988, and this would suggest an even larger vote for Ronald Reagan.

Unfortunately, the GOP has built up and then relied upon a hard right religious base of voters.

The liberals use it to generate a base of voters.

Funny how we criticize and mock other countries that have governments based on religious fanaticism (i.e. Iran) while a large segment of our voters are also religious fanatics who seem to think their view is the only «morally correct» way to feel about an issue (i.e.abortion).

I hate it, but I really don't see how you could get faith out of politics because a person's faith does impact their decisions day - to - day, and a voter needs to vote based on what a person will do with their authority.

An August 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46 %) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about «the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right»; 42 % said they agree with the conservative Christian movement and roughly one - in - ten (11 %) said they disagree (based on registered voters).