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I have never been a quitter and I am not going to start now,» reads a message on the Facebook page of scandal - soaked Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who received a shellacking last night at the hands of Gustavo Rivera, a relatively unknown candidate who won over voters by not being Pedro Espada.

Can you still win over voters by tying your social platform to religion?

Not exact matches

«The question facing British voters on Thursday is just a specific, local version of a question being considered by voters all over the advanced world: Should we vent our rage at the institutions we are dissatisfied with by replacing them with some unspecified, nationalism - inflected replacement?»

During the election, Trump scored points with an array of working - class voters by saying he would renegotiate trade deals, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which the president has said favored other countries over the U.S.

Fatigued by years of austerity and swayed by promises of debt relief, Icelandic voters dumped the Social Democrats from power on Saturday, returning a center - right government that ruled over its financial collapse five years ago.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

With the government's strategy over the past few months apparently focused on undermining the Wildrose Alliance by stealing from its agenda, many had expected the Tories would further woo disaffected right - wing voters with deep spending cuts in this year's budget, which was unveiled on Feb. 9.

Company leaders — including Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, and Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer — have struggled to address a growing set of problems, including Russian interference on the platform, the rise of false news and the disclosure over the weekend that 50 million of its user profiles had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a voter - profiling company.

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.

Over 6 million Floridians have already cast their ballots in early voting, more than the total 5.9 million cast by registered voters in 2000.

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 finance.

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.

The trove of documents shared publicly by the company's former research director, Christopher Wylie, illustrates that granular personal data on each of us can be used to create precise messages to any individual voter, then delivered to us through the online ecosystem over Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter and other free services.

WASHINGTON — Former president Barack Obama's top campaign aide on Tuesday rejected comparisons between Obama's extensive use of Facebook data to turn out voters in the 2012 election and the actions of Cambridge Analytica, a data and political intelligence firm ejected last week by Facebook in a growing controversy over social - media privacy.

The debate over how to attract young voters is symptomatic of the challenges faced by American conservatives.

But in November 2004, regardless of claims about voter fraud, Bush actually won the popular vote by over 3.5 million ballots, making his regime and his wars ours.

They parallel the provisions of many state constitutions in this country and popular initiatives such as the Cardinal Bernardin Amendment, recently approved in a referendum by over 80 percent of Cook County, Illinois, voters, to make health care a right.

Reagan - era populist conservatives showed that it was possible for the party to move «right» on taxes, welfare, and foreign policy and win over the persuadable voters that the establishment believed could only be won by moving left.

That was a bunch from Grant of Sacramento that got in because the voters were impressed by a pair of wins over state champions from Utah and Idaho.

Local confidence was soaring, thanks to the 2006 BCS upset by Florida over Ohio State after voters had agreed with Gators coach Urban Meyer's argument about tough SEC schedules trumping BCS No. 3 Michigan's «style points.»

The Golden Eagles captured road wins against Xavier and Butler over the weekend, but in the eyes of the voters, that wasn't enough to repair the damage done by losing to Creighton at home the week before and on the road against DePaul the week before that.

Although voters approved an advisory referendum in March to fund the two - level center, residents are divided over the proposed site, which is bounded almost entirely by homes.

The golf course came under new ownership in 1944, when Northwestern University purchased the property and took over operations until 1972, when it was purchased by the Wilmette Park District via a $ 4.2 million referendum that was supported by local voters, officials said.

Although the approval by voters of a tax increase will allow the Cary Park District to purchase a 254 - acre farm, some village officials say the five - year feud is far from over and may drag on for years in court.

And Grisanti's campaign clearly believes that by emphasizing his ties and relationship with the popular Democratic governor he can win over non-GOP voters.

But in surveys conducted over the summer by The New Statesmen, Labour's members were 75 % ABC1 voters, 57 % degree holders and 15 % London dwellers.

Betty Ann Canizio - Aqil, a Board of Elections chief clerk in Brooklyn, is expected to be suspended after a vote by the board's commissioners — the second BOE official to be suspended over New York's primary day snafu that led many voters to be turned away at the polls.

Across the land, Lib Dem MPs face being thrown over the electoral edge by angry and disillusioned voters.

When we need to resort to hackers to see through the fog's of under handed politics that favored the chosen one over those picked by voters, it tells you that people long for real journalism that left us many decades ago.

And in that election, older voters supported John McCain over President Obama by an eight - percentage - point margin, with 53 percent voting for Mr. McCain.

Democrats over the weekend questioned the results of a Siena College poll that showed Cuomo viewed viewed unfavorably by 51 percent of voters, after only 40 percent viewed him that way last month.

With perhaps just over two months until the general election, voters may have less than a fortnight to register to vote once the polling date has been announced by the prime minister.

So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:

Over on Team Turner, campaign spokeswoman Jessica Proud took the opportunity to highlight the congressman's big get from last week — a nod from former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani — saying the poll results continue the «momentum - building» sparked by that endorsement, showing Turner as the favorite among Republican voters.

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Antwi Boasiako has switched over to the defensive mode following threats by Koku Anyidoho to sue the New Patriotic Party's Vice Presidential nominee for failing to provide evidence for his bloated voter register claims.

A recent survey carried out by You Gov for the Sheffield University Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) demonstrated that voters in Britain now prioritise growth over deficit reduction (47 - 34 %), deeming current spending cuts to be hasty and excessive.

Couldn't agree more Colin, over at Voters Act we're trying to merge the two by allowing supporters to create fundraising pages and advocate for campaigns directly to their peers.

«Imagine, for example, tailored advertisements created for individual «swing voters» (selected automatically through profiling), pointing out a party's positive steps in the policy areas that are most likely to interest them (also selected automatically), omitting those areas where party policy doesn't fit, and couching it in a language appropriate to the individual's ethnic, educational, cultural and linguistic background, illustrated with a few appropriate news TV clips, and playing background music exactly to the individual's taste and voiced over by an actor that profiling reveals that individual likes?

The unpredicted support for Brexit by over half of voters in the UK referendum illustrates these characteristics of the movements we model in the book, with the resistance to traditional forms of organization.

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.

The Central Regional Director of the NCCE, Nicolas Ofori Boateng who made the observation, said the situation had influenced voter turnout at district level elections over the past years, as the electorates had lost confidence or felt betrayed by the assembly members.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

Such a huge loss by the Republican presidential nominee would pit two oft - voiced truisms against one another: that the House majority is securely in GOP hands because of the tilted redistricting process in 2011, and that the era of voters splitting presidential tickets is over.

A former aide to Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE criticized Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE on Thursday after the New York Democrat became the first of many senators to join a successful push to force the resignation of Sen. Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart Franken100 days after House passage, Gillibrand calls on Senate to act on sexual harassment reform Eric Schneiderman and #MeToo pose challenges for both parties Senate confirms Trump judicial pick over objections of home - state senator MORE (D - Minn.).

The Governor's favorability rating was steady, but his job performance and re-elect ratings slipped a little, according to Siena, which says voters prefer Cuomo by wide margins over a potential Democratic challenger, Cynthia Nixon, and either of the leading Republican challengers.

It stands accused of harvesting Facebook user data to profile voters that that were ultimately targeted by the Trump campaign, which spent over $ 6 million on information obtained by the firm.

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?

By Tuesday evening, Schneiderman's voter hotline received over 560 calls and 140 emails citing problems at the polls.

Yet this is from the same people who presided over losing five million Labour voters from 1997 to 2010 whilst Ed Miliband increased Labour's vote by 600,000.

Conducted by the Student PIRGs» New Voters Project, Working Assets and researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton, the study looked at the effects of SMS GOTV reminders in the 2006 general election on a group of 4000 people selected at random from a pool of over 8000 new vVoters Project, Working Assets and researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton, the study looked at the effects of SMS GOTV reminders in the 2006 general election on a group of 4000 people selected at random from a pool of over 8000 new votersvoters.