Sentences with phrase «over their voters if»

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If the 2018 Senate race in Tennessee were held today, voters would favor Democratic candidate Phil Bredesen over his opponent, U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a new poll finds.

If Kenney doesn't follow the lead of Brown, his fellow social conservative caucus colleague, it likely signals one of two things: he does want the support of voters for whom parental rights regarding their pre-adolescents and teens are a big issue; or that he's calculated that a softening of his image would show weakness and isn't worth it, because his party has such a comfortable edge over Notley that he can afford to lose voters wary of anything resembling social conservatism.

If Romney and Ryan win the election and there is voter suppression in battlegound states, the country will be ungovernable — it will be 1968 all over again.

Voters who have allowed him to pull the wool over their eyes will be shocked beyond belief if / when he takes office.

And if over 400 of the voters saw the je ne sais quoi that I never saw, I'll learn to accept that it's my problem, not theirs.

«For over five years, the Dixmoor Park District has been nothing but a sham,» Assistant State's Atty. Donna Lach said in her opening argument, while Dirk Van Beek, the attorney for Dixmoor's voters, said in his opening statement that «residents would have been better off if those taxes had not been levied at all.»

For instance, he discussed the fact that electoral campaigns spend a huge amount of effort building up volunteer lists, email lists and voter target lists, but that the data tend to go away as soon the election is over (particularly if the campaign loses).

This means that (for example) even if 60 % of voters favor Candidate Alice over Candidate Bob, it's still possible for Bob to beat Alice.

If they switched their votes too, there would be a majority of over half a million voters in favour of Leave.

Certainly to me (a floating voter) it looks as if Labour have moved a long way to the right and to the authoritarian over the last 15 years or so, and if they want their old supporters to listen to them, they may have to migrate back a bit to get the conversation started.

For example, a voter might want to say «My first choice is Jill Stein so I'm voting for her, but if Stein can't win I'd prefer Clinton over Trump» or «My preferred candidate is Evan McMullin but if he can't win I'd prefer Trump over Clinton.»

If the goal is to maintain some form of local representation or connection between a member of parliament and a district (personally, I am not convinced it's a good thing) with a more proportional representation, Germany has another (rather complex) way to achieve that, called «personalized proportional vote» but even that only gives voters control over some of the seats.

But if the RNC follows through on a field strategy (along with a new emphasis on digital, also mentioned in the article), Republicans are likely to get more bang for their bucks by building those long - term relationships with voters that Democrats have been learning to emphasize over the past decade.

If this is not enough to win over undecided voters, the Conservative campaign will also focus on highlighting the personality differences between the two leaders.

Greenberg says if that occurs, it's far from certain whether that candidate would actually win over that many voters.

The broad strategy to win over Yes voters, however, is straightforward: vote Labour if you want to get rid of the Tories.

If genuinely bipartisan legislation signed into law by Republican presidents did not win over Latino voters, why would legislation receiving more Democratic than Republican votes in Congress that is signed into law by Barack Obama?

If Mr Murphy is to achieve his ambition of successfully defending all of his party's citadels, Labour will have to win over voters who at present could not seriously contemplate voting for the party at all.

Paladino was here last week for a rally that, if anything, highlighted the struggles within the conservative voter base over the measure, even if polls show most New Yorkers are in favor of updating the state's assault weapons ban.

He warned they would all become vulnerable in 2015 if nothing is done quickly to win over support from Labour's tactical voters.

If elections and national surveys over the past year have shown us anything, it is that suburban voters could well be the key to the 2018 midterm House elections.

If England was already independent, its electorate would (by almost 3 to 2) be happy to join up with fellow Leave voters in Wales, but only fractionally over half of English people would want to enter a union with Scotland if they weren't already in onIf England was already independent, its electorate would (by almost 3 to 2) be happy to join up with fellow Leave voters in Wales, but only fractionally over half of English people would want to enter a union with Scotland if they weren't already in onif they weren't already in one.

And if voters want their voice to be heard over a politician's ideology, they should think twice about choosing independent candidate Ben Walsh.

In a sign of how effectively the coalition has blamed Labour for the economic malaise, many voters would still blame the party even if there was economic decline over the next 12 months - a full year after it lost power.

If voters turn out in accordance with a Siena College poll released over the weekend, the Democrats will be in control after Wednesday.

Indeed, even if UKIP just held on its current ex-Tory voters and did not win over any more, David Cameron would be heading for a heavy defeat.

Like, if the Republicans continue to control the Senate thanks to a Cuomo - approved gerrymander plus five defections that the governor was perfectly OK with, and then over the course of the next couple of years their conference blocks campaign finance reform and drug reform and a hike of the minimum wage, doesn't it become somewhat more difficult for Cuomo to explain to Democratic primary voters why he didn't just do something about it?

Speaking of borders, if you live one step over the city limits of Albany, New York don't bother trying to help city voters vote.

Or should they work to win over Ukip voters at a more local level — and if so, what messages can they use to persuade them?

If Spitzer were to make a bid for public office in New York State this year, voters are all over the map when it comes to which office he should seek.

Over the last few decades which portions of the average rural voter's disposable income in dollars, (or if there is no change, their quality of life), have consistently improved as a result of Republican policies, relative to Democratic policies?

«If about 600,000 people — just over one per cent of registered voters — had decided differently, IN would have won,» he said later.

«I wanted to see if there was unity within the party on how we can speak with a single voice and a single mind to win over these working class voters,» he told me.

Over the last few decades which portions of the average metropolitan voter's disposable income in dollars, (or if there is no change, their quality of life), have consistently improved as a result of Democratic policies, relative to Republican policies?

It seemed as if their nervousness over fleeing voters meant the Tories were prepared to sacrifice their central message of financial responsibility.

SCOTLAND will become an independent country in 12 months time if voters can be convinced over the next year that a Yes vote will make them better off, a new poll suggests today.

But as several observers have pointed out to me since this story first broke in Newsday over the weekend, this issue is unlikely to resonate with voters — if they're even paying attention at this point.

«If we're to win over 11 million voters, then some of them will have to be Daily Mail and Sun readers.

Specifically, the theorem states that there's no way to design a voting system such that all three of these criteria hold: If every voter prefers alternative X over alternative Y, then the group prefers X over Y.

However he calculates that an April 2015 visit from the prime minister is more likely to have won over wavering voters - even if it was during his speech in Croydon that David Cameron famously forgot which football team he supported, apparently switching from Aston Villa to West Ham.

If Corbyn is to gain votes from his plan to take over Britain's railways, he must also persuade voters that he know how to run the economy.

If that same level of growth continued over the length of a possible eight - year Trump administration, Democrats will be close to a majority of CD - 1 voters.

It's Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D), Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R), and the legislative leadership in both states (mostly R in Florida, bipartisan in Michigan) who should face the voters» wrath (if any) over «disenfranchisement.».

If a convention is authorized, voters would pick delegates and have the final say over any changes.

In a rare TV sit down interview for a documentary film about his late father, Cuomo reflects on his 2010 comeback win, saying he doesn't think he could have been successful if New York voters hadn't gotten over the anger that led them to oust the late ex-Gov.

Sean Ryan [email protected] The state budget debate over using referendums for regional transit authority projects has legislators wondering if they should let voters make the call.

The only problem with this is that a) they are a minority of voters, b) the Lib Dems have already claimed some of them and even if we won them over it still would not be a majority.

... if a Working Families Party candidate enters the race, 24 percent of voters polled said they'd back the third - party candidate over the current governor....

Mr. Espaillat, known for campaigning with sound trucks bearing his name, could have his own problems winning over his bloc of Dominican - American voters if his old rival Assemblyman Guillermo Linares, a trailblazer in Dominican politics, jumps in the race.

What's more, if Republican primary voters continue to nominate paleo - conservatives over mainstream candidates, the general electorate might well decide to let Democrats gain seats.