Sentences with phrase «only as a voter»

Speaking only as a voter and citizen, I recognize the deep difficulty in doing so.

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«Rand is one of the only people who can speak to libertarians, social conservatives, as well as your average mainstream Republican voter.»

Not only do we think black voters should abstain from voting for the Democratic presidential nominee in red states, we also think black voters should continue their role as pivotal voters in battleground states.

The only goal that matters is to get your messages in front of highly influential people (think digital multipliers and megaphones) who are tightly connected to significant (and fairly sizeable) niches of active and desirable individuals whose actions and attitudes they can directly influence (amplification) and whose behaviors as consumers, voters, or other cohort members you are looking to change and channel into actual results.

Whether «voters» should have direct control over something as technical (and sometimes emotional) as executive compensation is far from clear, which is why most say - on - pay requirements today call only for advisory votes.

While some segments of the KMT pointed to the event as a last - minute external factor that swung many voters in DPP's direction in many competitive races, analysts and DPP supporters argue that the video probably only had marginal impact on the electoral outcome.

As it turned out, only nine Courtenay - Comox votes — quite possibly from the very people we spoke with on those door steps, and almost certainly from some of those first - time voters we signed - up — currently make up the difference between another Christy Clark Big Money majority and the chance for a fresh start in B.C. politics.

As Ben Graham said, «In the short - run, the market is a voting machine — reflecting a voter - registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional stability — but in the long - run, the market is a weighing machine.»

Even if third parties could only get a little of your data — your hometown, say, or your gender — they could match it up with all kinds of other records, such marketing databases or voter registration databases, to paint a more complete picture of you as a person.

He can win only because voters are drawn to the Republican brand as it has been shaped by Paul Ryan and others.

These voters will only hear Fiorina in highly edited video packages (putatively) showing how she lied, and those Planned Parenthood videos will only be referenced in order to be dismissed as fakes.

It is too bad for the rest of us as he seems to be the only potential candidate with the chance to form a nominating coalition from social conservative and somewhat conservative voters — and he would be our best chance to get a Republican nominee who is not in the orbit of the lobbying industry.

The affirming voter acts as if hers is the only vote being cast.

More than a hundred million voters each had something in mind, but discerning their intent is no easy matter (and not only when, as in Florida, they failed to indicate their intent on the ballot).

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Here, as Bishop John J. Myers of Peoria observed in his Pastoral Statement on the Obligations of Catholics and Rights of Unborn Children, the voter or legislator need will only the law's protections, while accepting, though not willing, the injustices that he is powerless to remove.

For good or ill, the nomination process today is structured as a marathon; for the race to end almost before it begins would leave voters uneasy and journalists with too much free time, which can only lead to mischief.

Because apparently Haley isn't the only voter in South Carolina who thinks (as Knotts put it), «We need a good Christian to be our governor.»

This caricature of the democratic process turns not only potential candidates away, but voters as well.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

Apparently there were only five voters who submitted blank ballots, and we might simply consider those voters — yes, including ESPN's Howard Bryant — as the lunatic fringe, and write them off; on this issue, there's simply no use appealing to reason, and fortunately there aren't enough of them to make a real difference in the results.

«The reason I filed as a write - in is I felt voters were disenfranchised because there were only the three current incumbents,» Battinus said.

As part of a 10 - year strategic Wake County Transit Plan approved by voters in 2016, Union Station will not only serve Amtrak passengers, but also act as a multi-modal transit center connecting riders to other forms of transiAs part of a 10 - year strategic Wake County Transit Plan approved by voters in 2016, Union Station will not only serve Amtrak passengers, but also act as a multi-modal transit center connecting riders to other forms of transias a multi-modal transit center connecting riders to other forms of transit.

As surveys show, his voters know that he is untrustworthy and unqualified to be commander - in - chief, despite his claims to be an outsider and the only person capable of restoring faith in politics.

FPTP only allows voters to vote for a single person, and since the vote can't be transferred, if that person doesn't win that means the voter might as well have not voted at all.

In one recent survey, 81 % of voters described the parties as «much of a muchness» and only 16 % said they felt there was a real difference between them.

Yet it's also not inconceivable that the polls were only apparently wrong, as would be the case with user chx's voter suppression answer.

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.

If only of course the 34th were a «liberal» district as opposed to a relatively conservative district for NYC — maybe you think the other voters of the 34th might want a say in who represents them?

«As evidenced by her pledge to not raise taxes, Wendy Long is the only candidate in the race who will stand firm in her convictions, protect taxpayers and job creators, not flip - flop, and offer voters a clear and compelling alternative to Turner, Maragos in June and Gillibrand in November.»

The current proposal in the draft reform bill avoids this difficulty by only requiring voters to express as many preferences as they want to.

The animation will be delivered to certain African American voters through Facebook «dark posts» — nonpublic posts whose viewership the campaign controls so that, as Parscale puts it, «only the people we want to see it, see it.»

Indeed, as figure 2 shows, pro-independence voters were almost as united in their support for the SNP in Westminster in 2010, when they won only 20 per cent of the vote, as they are now.

When BritainThinks asked swing voters in Watford their expectations for 2018 in focus groups earlier this year, they painted an almost universally gloomy picture of uncertainty, anxiety and division — in fact, it feels like the only thing we have to be proud of as a nation is the Royal Family.

For example, voters in the 18 to 29 age group are both more likely to be Democrats in the US and more likely to use their cell phones as their only phones.

This even applies to «well intentioned» initiatives and led several states from threatening to arrest international election monitors if they attempted to monitor elections from the polling place as only legal voters and poll employees are allowed in the polling place itself.

Not only did the Liberal Democrats alienate left - leaning voters by entering the coalition, but its leaders did as much as David Cameron and George Osborne to brand Labour as spendthrift and irresponsible — Nick Clegg by playing up the comparison between the UK and Greece, David Laws by brandishing the now - notorious note from Liam Byrne.

And as TV commercials and other mass - audience channels steadily lose effectiveness, campaigns may NEED the potential evangelists that social networking sites naturally draw in — building an army of active and aggressive supporters may be the only way to cut through the endless clutter of media saturation and reach actual voters.

Pundits have slated a whole series of policy announcements by Labour as loony lefty extremism — only to discover that the majority of voters think they're an excellent idea.

For instance, when looking at the internet as a persuasive tool, they say that «e-mail is not close to challenging direct mail and phone calls as ways to reach voters: A Pew Research Center survey last month found that 38 percent of registered voters had received phone calls about the midterm campaigns, while only 15 percent had received e-mail.»

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 advertisinAs 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 advertisinas a top way to reach them, comparable with direct mail and only a hair above newspaper and radio advertising!

In other words, by appealing to national pride, he unifies and mobilises the «responsible» voters against the minority of Euro - sceptics (embodied by Beppe Grillo and paradoxically defined as the only populists on the political scene).

Borrowing a page from Clinton's 1999 «listening tour» — held as she prepared for a Senate candidacy — Buffalo mayoral candidature Mark Schroeder is staging a series of events in city neighborhoods, none downtown, to gauge feedback from voters and bolster his claims that incumbent Mayor Byron Brown cares only about downtown.

It is only practical to hold the state primary on the same day as the federal primary, allowing for a stronger and more cohesive voter participation.»

Only by positioning itself as the party of efficiency, spending cuts where necessary and value for money can Labour turn on the Tories and ask voters: now that we have slimmed down the state, do you want the Tories to cut the basics, too?

Support can only grow in strength as time goes on (assuming the younger voters don't change views as they age), especially as the deficiencies in the present system are continually laid bare.

The move will leave Labour as the only mainstream party resisting demands for voters to have a say on the country's links with Brussels.

The petition must contain 100 signatures from each of the state's congressional districts; only voters belong to the same party as the candidate can sign the petition.

As voters, our only defense is to be armed with knowledge and insist on an Affidavit ballot to protect our vote and mitigate any political factors that may have come into play at the polling site.

Furthermore, he has only spent about $ 20,000 thus far, meaning most of that money will be used later for the campaign, which makes sense as voters won't be heading to the polls until 2013.