Sentences with phrase «over voters like»

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Although the commission has previously requested states to hand over information on its voters, several like California and New York refused to comply.

The conservative politician who can listen to members of the other political coalition like Reagan did, and who can learn to respond to the arguments of the other side (as opposed to just posturing for the amusement of their own side), won't just win over those who currently think of themselves as swing - voters.

Turns out the voters like overtime wins over top 10 teams more than double overtime losses to unranked teams.

Instead, she laid the blame at the feet of the Democratic Party — speficially the Rev. Al Sharpton, who publicly declared his support for keeping the partisan primary system in place last weekend, saying nonpartisan elections would enable self - financed candidates like the billionaire mayor to take over the political system and disenfranchise minority voters.

«The Balls intervention perhaps highlights how there may be a range of different political responses to arguments about how and why part of Labour's electoral defeat was that it struggled with middle income, and particularly C2 voters, over issues like crime, welfare and immigration.»

It's a classic jujitsu idea — use your enemy's strengths against him, in this case leveraging off of the favorable attention Gerlach has been getting over his puppy bill to point out something that he IS N'T working on... or at least, something that Trevedi would like voters to PERCEIVE that he isn't working on.

«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?

But scores that BES respondents gave on 0 (strongly dislike) to 10 (strongly like) scales for each of the parties show that both Conservative and Liberal Democrat voters more strongly prefer their own party over Labour than they prefer Labour over the SNP.

Their voters might like having a chance to pick candidates for themselves instead of turning decisions over to corrupt county leaders.

It's like arguing over which crumb they will leave voters with in a bid to distract from the fact between them they've already gobbled up the whole cake.

Arthur «Jerry» Kremer is a former state assemblyman and founding chairman of Empire Government Strategies, a state lobbying firm, and said fracking opponents like Avella used fear to convince voters over to their side.

«The reason I think it's important that everyone votes is because when you have an unequal voter turnout between demographic groups like we have now — people over 65 are almost twice as likely to vote as 18 - 24 year olds - then politicians look after the people that have elected them or the people that might elect them in the future.

Over the last three years in office, de Blasio has made some attempts to win over borough voters with specific initiatives and new funding, like curbside electronic waste pickup and increased Staten Island Ferry servOver the last three years in office, de Blasio has made some attempts to win over borough voters with specific initiatives and new funding, like curbside electronic waste pickup and increased Staten Island Ferry servover borough voters with specific initiatives and new funding, like curbside electronic waste pickup and increased Staten Island Ferry service.

Voters do not like divided parties and the Tories now enjoy a significant advantage over Labour on unity (in early May ICM found that 64 % of voters thought Labour divided but only 48 % thought the same of the ConservatVoters do not like divided parties and the Tories now enjoy a significant advantage over Labour on unity (in early May ICM found that 64 % of voters thought Labour divided but only 48 % thought the same of the Conservatvoters thought Labour divided but only 48 % thought the same of the Conservatives).

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?

Like Boris, Hannan would be well - advised to stay well away from Westminster and build an independent power base by appealing over the heads of the modernisers to real voters who are sick of the corrupt cartel politics of SW1A 0AA.

With Democratic lawmakers like Eliot Spitzer, Alan Hevesi David Paterson, Hiram Monserrate and Pedro Espada fueling public ire over Albany dysfunction and corruption over the last few years, voters could be looking for a Republican alternative in 2010, and a law - and - order spot like attorney general could be where they land.

In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over election procedures like voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly the champions of higher turnout and reducing barriers to participation.

In 2015, it felt like the rest of the nation was getting to experience a little bit of my job when this voter (at 1:10) on the BBC's Question Time special tore into Ed over Labour spending.

But as the town's population has since more than doubled, Democrats over those decades have gradually overtaken Republicans in voter enrollment — «like a glacier,» Kindel said.

Among them are term limits for state legislators, election reforms like same - day voter registration and stronger anti-corruption measures, and «home rule» provisions that would give New York City more control over how it taxes and spends.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which data from over 50 million Facebook profiles was secretly scraped and mined for voter insights, many Facebook users have decided to delete their accounts — but untangling yourself from a site like Facebook is not as easy as pressing «delete.»

Ed had been able to get across the worry a lot of Core labour voters have about immigration concerning work, and not be shouted down as a racist by the likes of Diane Abbott, the way other labour supporters like lord Glasman or rod Liddle have in the past, when as Liddle pointed out lately, it's the rich bosses employing Eastern European workers that have financially benefitted, not the working class, and the mess Cameron has made over Junkter, is nothing to the failure of Ed, to score over Andy Coulson scandal,

Just like in 1979 and 1997, an alliance of Labour and SNP voters will be sufficient to see the yes campaigners over the line to victory.

The Leeds West MP, Rachel Reeves, told a fringe meeting on Tuesday that her constituency was like a «tinder box» and voters» concerns about immigration and lack of control over their lives could «explode» on to the streets if they remain unaddressed.

Regardless of how you feel about the Tories» NHS reforms the fact that they've been in power for most of the period since 1948 without ever looking like abolishing it, and in any case are now mostly doing things that the last Labour government also did when in power, means an election pitch which relies on convincing voters that if the Tories remain in office they'll actually destroy the NHS is simply not plausible to the sort of people Labour needs to win over.

According to the Siena College poll, 61 % of voters now say they view him favorably overall, and just over half 51 % say they like the job he's doing in office.

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But it could turn out in the end that voters want to finally reward Streep for all of her devotion and brilliant performances over the years, even if they can't quite bring themselves to like the character she plays.

If he is strong in both movies it could lead to a split amongst voters over which one they prefer, or if they like one movie more they could be more inclined to reward him for that one than the other despite which one holds the better performance.

Jane Gets Left in the Jungle Regarding Best Documentary Brett Morgen's documentary culled from over 100 hours of raw footage of Jane Goodall and made a portrait of a strong, steadfast, iconic woman that felt like Oscar voter manna — it felt like a frontrunner to win, much less get nominated this year.

But maybe... just maybe... one of these races will end like it did two years ago when Oscar voters ignored their guild counterparts and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. members and went for Mark Rylance over Sylvester Stallone just as the orchestra was about to launch into «Gon na Fly Now.»

Carell's flashy, ostentatious performance is just the sort of thing Academy voters fawn over, and while his positioning in the lead category isn't as patently insane as Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, it's still a clear supporting role that ended up pushing out actors like Ralph Fiennes and David Oyelowo, both of whom were the actual leads of their respective films.

Winona Ryder (Stranger Things)-- Emmy voters weren't won over by Winona Ryder's return to significance, but as the show continues to captivate millions of people around the world, she seems like an obvious favorite for the movie star obsessed Hollywood Foreign Press.

In the survey conducted, policies like comprehensive background checks and preventing convicted stalkers from obtaining guns were backed by over 85 percent of registered voters.

This is usually how it goes: politician wannabe gets campaign contributions from private sector guy, gets into office, legislates in favor of private sector guy, private sector guy contributes more, politician guy takes vacation in Italy (or goes for a hike on the Appalachian trail)... gets re-elected, the word gets out that he «plays,» more private sector guys contribute to his campaign, voters are pleased to see the name of their representative in print, like the new wardrobe, the new hairstyle, believe all change is good and re-elect the politician again... politician feels the power, creates agency to watch over private sector guy, agency takes fact - finding trip to France... raises taxes on private sector guy, writes legislation that taxes private sector guy if his plant emits CO2 while producing widgets... voters are in awe and re-elect the politician... private sector guy whines, politician makes him ambassador to Taiwan, limits how much the new private guy taking his place can earn, and taxes all widgets so new private guy will make more environmentally friendly ones... voters swoon, pay more for widgets, lose job in widget factory, hate private guy, re-elect their pol... politician buries $ 5 billion aid to Taiwan in next appropriation bill...... kind of makes a case for term limits, doesn't it.

This from the guy who tosses around endearing terms like idiot, petulant liar, fool, moron, hideously bloated and truculent denialist scumbag, mentally aberrant conservative son of a diseased camel, morally deficient lizard brain, scion of a toad and a slime mould, repugnant eater of children and defiler of mothers, Republican voter, a wart on the rump of the body politic, viewer of Faux News, disgusting purveyor of ideas picked up in the intellectual dung heaps of civilisation, soiler of underpants, bent over superannuated hag of obsolete ideologies, putrid despoiler of humanities past, present and future.

As it stands, uninspired voters can spoil their ballot by doing things like crossing out a candidate's name, writing in an alternative, leaving it blank or drawing happy faces all over it, and Elections Canada will lump them together under the label «rejected» and include them in the official results.