Sentences with phrase «of voters in a state»

Early returns suggest a significant majority of voters in the State of Washington have approved an initiative to privatize the state's remaining government liquor stores.

If the majority of voters in a state vote one way it is not an indication that the majority of the tax paid in that state voted one way or the other.

You could also include the outright rejection of Palin by the general electorate of the state of Alaska, where she was able to force a candidate down the the throat of the Republican party, who then had nearly 70 % of the voters in that state vote for someone else in the general election.

«Three quarters of the voters in this state don't know enough about Rob Astorino to have an opinion of him,» Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg told WCBS 880's Paul Murnane.

«Right now 60 percent of voters in this state view Cuomo favorably.»

«The majority of the voters in this state are not looking for an extreme liberal or an extreme conservative,» Greenberg said.

Ado town is yet to produce a governor since the creation of the state despite having highest number of voters in the state.

Politicians and privatizers marking 25 years of the failed school privatization experiment in Wisconsin are doing so even after the majority of voters in the state have expressed opposition to the program.

Not exact matches

«With no prior notice to Congress, the Justice Department has trampled on the will of the voters in CO and other states,» Gardner said in a tweet on Thursday.

Voters have made marijuana legal for medical use in a majority of U.S. states and for recreational use in seven states and the District of Columbia.

Paul's support is even stronger among the youngest voters — the latest Granite State poll found Paul in first among New Hampshire primary voters under 35, with 32 %, and whopping 56 % of those voters said they had a favorable view of Paul.

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

The chair of the county's GOP said he first realized there could be a big flip in the vote after the state's April primary, in which Trump attracted the vast majority of Luzerne County voters.

In a new CNN / Time poll of GOP voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, Paul comes in third place in all three stateIn a new CNN / Time poll of GOP voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, Paul comes in third place in all three statein Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, Paul comes in third place in all three statein third place in all three statein all three states.

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.

Of course, if just 1 % of Trump voters voted for Clinton in the three highlighted states, «we would be having a very different conversation,» he addeOf course, if just 1 % of Trump voters voted for Clinton in the three highlighted states, «we would be having a very different conversation,» he addeof Trump voters voted for Clinton in the three highlighted states, «we would be having a very different conversation,» he added.

Some of these ads targeted voters in swing states, like Michigan and Wisconsin.

While their contributions as pivotal voters have gone largely unacknowledged, Ohio black voters, in particular, have pulled more than their weight for Democratic victories in one of the most highly contested states in the Electoral College.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

Voters in a dozen states will take part in «Super Tuesday» — a series of primaries and caucuses in states ranging from Alaska to Virginia, with Virginia the first to open its polling stations at 6:00 am (1100 GMT).

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

If Trump is banking on this part of the state to win, he would need to carry roughly one - in - four voters — an almost impossible task given unions» strong control of members.

Naming her director was a part of Trump's strategy to win over the African American community in the U.S., especially after recent polls showed he had 0 % approval among black voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania — key states for the Republican nominee.

As they enthusiastically did in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out in massive numbers this November in states where their votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

According to estimates by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, black voters contributed roughly 70 % of Obama's share of the vote in the state, both in 2008 and 2012.

Of course, marijuana remains very much illegal on the federal level, though the Obama Administration has typically allowed individual states to freely regulate the drug in accordance with voters» wishes.

Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.

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.

Hoffman also stressed that transparency is important in a presidential candidate so that voters can be made aware of his conflicts of interest, his state of public affairs, and his charitable giving.

Also on Thursday, Quinnipiac University released a new poll showing that 71 % of American voters — including 55 % of Republican voters — say they oppose the government enforcing federal laws banning marijuana in states that have already legalized the drug for either medical or recreational purposes.

The Brennan Center for Justice estimated in August that up to 20 % of US voters would use a digital system without a paper trail to cast votes on November 8, and 42 states would use voting machines that were at least a decade old and had outdated hardware and software.

In recent months, those voters have consolidated their support behind another freshman senator, Texas» Ted Cruz, whose own belief and rhetoric more closely aligns with the state's conservative strain of evangelical Christianity.

Deep Root emphasized in its statement that the data that was accessed «was, to the best of our knowledge, proprietary information as well as voter data that is publicly available and readily provided by state government offices.»

When asked more generally, should the use of marijuana be made legal in the United States, 54 percent of voters said yes.

The department also changed its position in a critical voting rights case in Texas, abandoning its yearslong opposition to a critical aspect of the state's voter ID law.

The survey found that 64 percent of Republican voters in Iowa, 67 percent in New Hampshire, and 66 percent in South Carolina support states that want to carry out their own marijuana laws without fear of federal law.

Would the president - elect's administration go against the will of voters in an ever - growing number of states?

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who is up for re-election in a state where 58 percent of voters approved of President Donald Trump during the first quarter, now finds himself 1 point underwater — 43 percent approve, 44 percent disapprove — after a net slide of 17 points from fourth quarter, the biggest decline of any senator during that period.

retained his spot atop the rankings after picking up 11 points from the previous quarter — 72 percent of registered voters in the Green Mountain State approve of his job performance.

With two deeply unpopular nominees on the presidential ballot this year, the number of voters in Maryland who wrote in their own candidate for president more than tripled, according to state election data.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

Desperate for money after years of neglect by the state Legislature, Palm Beach County schools may ask voters in November to approve a new tax to boost teacher salaries and supplement school security and mental health care.

The challenge is to prevent last - minute lies that could sway enough voters to swing an election result — which, in the United States, can be a matter only of thousands or even hundreds of votes.

The Bush administration imposed tariffs ranging from 8 % to 30 % on a variety of steel products, in part to make good on a campaign promise designed to appeal to voters in the Rust Belt states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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.

In the last decade, the Bush Administration, seeking a Trojan Horse to privatize Social Security in the United States, applauded Chile's disastrous privatization of pension accounts (turning many over to US financial institutions) even as that nation's voters rejected the Pinochetistas largely out of anger at the vast pension rip - off by high financIn the last decade, the Bush Administration, seeking a Trojan Horse to privatize Social Security in the United States, applauded Chile's disastrous privatization of pension accounts (turning many over to US financial institutions) even as that nation's voters rejected the Pinochetistas largely out of anger at the vast pension rip - off by high financin the United States, applauded Chile's disastrous privatization of pension accounts (turning many over to US financial institutions) even as that nation's voters rejected the Pinochetistas largely out of anger at the vast pension rip - off by high finance.

When likely voters were asked whether a third - party candidate who is certified on a majority of state ballots should be included in the presidential debates, 76 percent said yes; 17 percent said no; and 7 percent were undecided.

That information was then used by Cambridge Analytica to build psychological profiles of voters in the United States and others.

In another section on the political campaign page, Facebook states for $ 1, candidates could buy two pieces of direct mail, or they could target 200 voters on Facebook.