Sentences with phrase «of voters interested»

Mobile publishing was a hot item with 32 percent of voters interested in it.

More than 20,000 first - time voters have registered with New York state in what state officials are calling an «unprecedented surge» of voter interest ahead of the state's April 19 presidential primary.

Not exact matches

There are some interests, said the court, that are held by everyone resident in a place, «regardless of whether they qualify as voters.»

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.»

As head of the IMF, Strauss - Kahn isn't allowed to comment directly on French politics, but he came pretty close during a Paris G20 press conference, addressing issues that would appear to be of more interest to French voters than the content of the international economic gathering.

While Clinton may not poll as well as Obama has with young and minority voters, she will grab the interest of female voters, political observers say.

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.

Another way of looking at it is that the voters already have decided — they elected the provincial government that put into place the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act 20 or so years ago.

Levine, a former member of President Obama's economic policy team, notes that almost all political candidates are on her service these days and using it in interesting ways to campaign and connect with potential voters.

Many voters believe that a financial bubble enriches the economy rather than turning the surplus into a flow of interest and banking fees.

Higher interest rates will triple the interest on the federal debt to $ 830 billion annually by 2026, will hurt workers and young voters, and could bankrupt over 20 % of US corporations, according to the IMF.

Activists working with immigrant voters say a «climate of fear» — stoked by rising deportation arrests and the failure of Congress and Trump to strike a deal on DACA — is stirring greater interest in their voter outreach efforts for the upcoming midterms.

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.

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.

In order to get a large number of people whom they regard as undereducated, easily led sheep to vote against their own best interests, they push emotional buttons, invoking images of Jesus and helpless babies, to make voters think this is what they stand for and want to protect.

Under a democracy of desire, the elected officers represent the interests of their constituents, and the voters expect their representatives — whether in the legislative or executive branches — to help them secure what they want.

Voters who place cultural or moral concerns above economic self - interest are obviously beset by a form of false consciousness (Frank never uses the term, but his analysis presupposes it).

Elites now have a strong interest in weakening the nation - state, and thus diminishing the power of the voters to whom they are accountable.

Long before the northern press was interested in covering the beatings of the black Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee workers, Charles McClaron had come to Ruleville to begin voter registration work.

Religion has become little more than political special interest groups, complete with lobbyists, legislation tilted to their desires, voter blocs, and the rest of it.

As I said, it is because the U.S. has politics — has a free, open, competitive democracy where interests jostle, candidates argue, and voters think for themselves — that we can expect the Pope's impact to cool faster than the engine of his Fiat.

Candidates, officeholders, and voters stand where they stand, on the issues and in their partisan alignment, because of interests, convictions, and opinions on which the Holy Father is quite incapable of achieving some measurable effect.

If a businessman can convince voters that he will direct his talents toward advancing the interests of the middle - class and the struggling, he will find it easier to win the public's trust.

Anyway, it's Categories 1 through 4 that most interest me at the moment, because it's clear that the great majority of voters fall within that range.

To be a candidate, interested persons must file nominating petitions signed by 125 qualified voters who are residents of the Arlington Heights Park District.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of eligible voters vote in North Dakota as compared with the states in which registration is required.

It's about realizing he couldn't litigate his past comedy, about trusting his staff, about understanding why politicians act the way they do in interviews, about recognizing why the norms of the Senate matter.So this is an interview about what it's like to be a politician, why perfectly nice and interesting people end up acting like all those other politicians after getting elected, and the role we as voters (and we in the media) play in it.

«We have an opportunity, if voters in town agree with the referendum, to have new debt in place with a minimal impact to residents,» said Wilson, adding that with currently low interest rates, residents likely would see no tax increase during the first five years of the 15 - year bond sale and a minimal increase for the following 10 years.

Interested in the idea of boosting voter involvement?

The technique's focus on digital behaviour obviously limits its view of the election outcome, although the fact that it includes around two million relevant searches per month means it represents perhaps the largest sampling of potential voter interest currently available.

How The World Works noticed an interesting little eddy in the endless flow of globalization today: popular Chinese search engine Baidu is featuring a cartoon Barack Obama and donkey combo fishing for voters -LRB-?)

These campaign ‐ style battles are being waged through an increasing number of «veiled actors» third ‐ party coalitions with misleading names that ask voters to «Save New York» or fight for «Fiscal Fairness» without revealing the powerful interest groups behind these messages.

Condi was supported by others earlier as being a shock and awe VP choice.It won't happen.She has expressed no interest in being a public candidate, and likely would be very bad at it.In many ways, she is a delicate flower; and would not easily survive in the political garden of vipers.And what would she add to the GOP ticket?A slight tick up for black voters?

For example, polling for IPPR showed that a striking 63 per cent of «DE» individuals think that it serves their interests badly, while «AB» voters are evenly split.

When you have 2 main candidates from 2 main parties, in a high profile campaign, their main viewpoints on topics deemed of interest to the voters are already well known, so there's no big problem of «oh!

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

UB40 said in a statement: «Jeremy has re-ignited an interest in politics for people who no longer felt included, and engaged and inspired a new generation of young voters who, for the first time, believe that they have an incorruptible politician who truly represents them.

These systems of knowledge about the function of parliament seem to be better informed than attending to the minutae of either side of the house, neither of which represents the economic interests in work of the majority of voters.

UKIP's rise really began at the tail end of Tony Blair's second term, when his Government's aggressive pro-Europeanism, liberal immigration policies and lack of interest in the domestic political priorities of working class voters became too much for some.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

Voters weren't asked to conceive of the Labour Party as a direct representation of working - class interests in aggregate — politics became about choosing which group of elites offered the best deal to you as an individual.

Alas, Britain's parliamentarians are myopically obsessed with whether one party or another stands to gain or lose from boundary changes, forgetting the far more important question: which system gives voters a sense of connection with their representatives and makes those representatives more likely to work hard in their constituents» interests.

Two weeks later, I read this piece in Salon about the race to succeed Duke Cunningham in California: seeing a deficit in absentee voters, «Republican activists «poured» into the district and searched a Republican Party database that could tell them everything about voters from their personal hobbies and professional interests to the brand of toothpaste they're likely to use.

Hamilton claimed that Williams had «frustrated the desire of the Welsh people to bring about change» and that Wood had «betrayed the interests of the voters who put her where she is».

Some of this data would have been recognizable to party operatives at the turn of the 19th century, such as voter files that contain information about the party registration and issue interests of citizens.

Regardless, it was clear from our panel of undecided voters that contrary to expectations, the public are interested in the EU debate and they are eager to participate in debates about complex issues.

He cites a Gallup poll carried out in August 1944 which asked voters whether they believed politicians in the wartime coalition government were acting mainly in the interests of their country, party or themselves.

This is all to the good since it will stimulate interest in the election, perhaps disproportionately among younger voters and those who have opted out of the mainstream media.

Wide - scale demonstrations are unlikely, given voters» relative lack of interest this time.

As a member of the PartyBuilder rapid response group, we'll send you important information about the 2008 Republican presidential candidates — when they mislead voters, completely change positions on the issues, or pander to special interests.