Sentences with phrase «part more voters»

Because all of the candidates can take part more voters visit and can ask questions which the candidates can answer publicly.

Not exact matches

If they act the part they are seeking before they get it, it will give them practice in living this success, and it will cause voters to see them in the role, which will make the election more likely to go in their favor.

Officially, the measure is to curtail unfair trade practices on Bombardier's part, but let's get real; it's more about appealing to protectionist sentiment among American voters and legislators.

Because they aren't responsible for collecting the taxes for these payments, «a provincial government and its voters are incited to always demand more from the centre, shifting a large part of the costs to the taxpayers of other provinces,» argues Université du Québec economist Pierre Lemieux.

That order followed a similar, non-binding independence vote that took place that year, in which more than 80 % of voters chose independence — although only 2.3 million out of the region's 6.3 million eligible voters took part, AFP noted.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

Some political observers say Republican overtures to Israel and to Jewish leaders are aimed more at American evangelical voters, a key part of the GOP base, than they are at Jews.

Recall that in the last election cycle, Cuomo created the Women's Equality Party — or WEP — a move widely seen in part as an effort to confuse voters — after all, E comes right before F in the alphabet — and get back at the WFP for daring to even consider backing a candidate other than Cuomo... more on this in a moment.

The Green MP told Politics.co.uk part of the reason her party had been unable to match Ukip's performance was because journalists had failed to present disgruntled voters with a «more positive option» than Ukip.

To them, it's a hopeful sign that non-whites and young people will be engaged this election, part of a shift in campaign strategy to more strongly mobilize less reliable, sporadic voters first.

The local party would typically share voter databases, contribution databases and volunteer databases and would (post-primary) endorse the winner of the primary as part of a party line slate in as many pieces of literature as the local party can afford (rarely more than one or two) in a coordinated literature drop also dropping individual candidate pieces at the same time through the precinct committee person network.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

Voters in the 11th Congressional District, far more conservative than in many in other parts of the city, did not view Mr. Donovan as unfavorably after the decision in the racially - charged case.

The boundary changes haven't made a vast difference to the seat directly, although there may be more Labour voters in the newly added part of the seat.

Democrats are optimistic they could gain a full majority this fall in part because of the presidential election bringing more Democratic voters to the polls and aiding down - ballot races along the way.

The Conservative candidate also picked up more than double the number of Ukip voters as Khan, suggesting that Goldsmith could benefit among more Eurosceptic parts of outer London.

Kennedy's trouble in the district may also come in part after the 2012 round of redistricting drew in more black voters (Grant herself is African - American).

Clearly there will be a few more hares set running yet, but Falconer insists that on the issues that matter to voters, Labour is increasingly as one: «It's part of the current politics that there are evident divisions within Labour on foreign policy, on defence policy, whereas the issues that may determine an election are the domestic issues.

Democrats in particular are confident they will make gains in next year's legislative races in part due to it being a presidential election year, which will typically draw out more Democratic voters in New York.

He explained that «if we all recognised the rights of each other and appreciated that no vote or voter is more important than the other, we will appreciate the tenets of democracy and respect the choices of people to avoid unnecessary conflicts and violence that characterise elections in some parts of the African continent.»

The Sullivan County Board of Elections will be under the watchful eye of the federal government for the next five years and will have to pay more than $ 500,000 as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit brought by Hasidic voters who accused the county of discrimination.

According to the latest Marist Poll in New York, 66 % of voters say, if Cuomo is elected governor, he would more likely be part of the solution to turning state government around than part of the problem.

Looking at non-enrolled voters statewide, 71 % believe Cuomo would be more likely to be a solution to the state's problems than part of their cause.

A more democratic Young Labour: At last Labour is beginning to recruit more young people and a healthy independent youth organisation is vital to enable them to win over the newest generation of voters but also to provide them with the self - confidence and experience to play their full part in all the party's activities as quickly as possible.

As voters get ready to consider more than 70 school district referendums as part of the statewide elections in a week, a state lawmaker's aide is saying his boss plans to reintroduce legislation that would limit when such votes can take place.

During a more than one - hour debate, sponsored by the Oneonta Area LWV and League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area, Faso cited how more than 1 million people have left Upstate in the last decade, in part, because of stagnant wages, job losses and exorbitant property taxes.

When stacked against each other, the poll found 58 percent of voters would prefer keeping a part - time Legislature but requiring more disclosure of outside income, as opposed to 40 percent who favored a full - time Legislature.

«For Liberal Democrats, delivering a fairer voting system and handing more power to voters is an integral part of delivering better public services and a fairer Wales.

Being seen to be more «gay friendly» has been a key part of David Cameron's mission to decontaminate the Conservative Party brand and make it more acceptable to young, socially liberal voters.

It is also a key part of making progress in Scotland — a November 2014 Survation poll found 27 per cent of SNP voters would be more likely to vote Labour if we committed to publicly owned Scottish rail services.

Liesl Hickey, a Republican strategist involved in several House races in swing states, said she was dismayed by a sudden exodus of independent voters in more diverse parts of the country.

But the new message — his plan would do more for Upstate than emerging ideas from Assembly and Senate leaders — signals that part of this year's budget negotiations will focus on winning over Upstate voters and taxpayers.

But I'd imagine it was around the same time he realized that more voters would rather see property tax cuts than they desire statewide public financing of elections, which was part of Cuomo's unwatered legislation.

In the London contest that could, in theory open the contest to more than five million people, if all the city's voters chose to take part.

Look at the London local elections in 2006, the turnout was so low that many Conservatives, Lib Dems, and even Greens and BNP people were elected; a feat which wasn't repeated in 2010 when Labour voters for the General election took part in the local elections, letting Labour gain many more seats despite being less popular nationally than in 2006.

According to Ed West, of the London Telegraph, «It's unlikely that life issues played a part in his downfall — far more that, as Greece goes down in flames, voters thought twice about the most pro-Euro party in Britain.»

It, in part, explains why Patricia Arquette is widely considered to be the frontrunner for her award, but her hirsute Boyhood counterpart Ethan Hawke is at best running a fairly distant second or third for turning in equally nuanced work as an only part - time functional father figure — and why Oscar voters gave Robert Duvall's far more flamboyantly flawed, piss - n» - vinegar patriarch a free pass to just be happy for the nomination once again.

One of the hardest parts of Oscar watching is the inevitable truths that come out every year about the behavior of Academy voters, who are more like your average movie - goer than they are like film critics.

Below are the top - shelf domestic narrative nominations: Best Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost / Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Director Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Stephen Daldry, The Reader David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard, Frost / Nixon Gus Van Sant, Milk Best Actor Richard Jenkins, The Visitor Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon Sean Penn, Milk Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Best Actress Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married Angelina Jolie, Changeling Melissa Leo, Frozen River Meryl Streep, Doubt Kate Winslet, The Reader Best Supporting Actor Josh Brolin, Milk Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams, Doubt Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis, Doubt Taraji P Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler Best Original Screenplay Frozen River In Bruges Happy - Go - Lucky Milk Wall ▪ E Best Adapted Screenplay The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Doubt Frost / Nixon The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Animated Feature Bolt Kung Fu Panda Wall ▪ E More thoughts later, and in the coming weeks, certainly, but the Best Supporting Actress nominations clearly offer mostly confirmatory love on the part of AMPAS voters — Cruz and Adams are recent nominees, and Tomei a past Oscar winner.

The results were part of a new poll released Thursday from the Public Policy Institute of California also found 60 percent of likely voters support Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to restructure the school funding system to one that provides more money to schools with greater numbers of disadvantaged students.

This promise was part of the Governor's compromise that eliminated parts of voter - approved proposition B, but also added several key enforcement measures including this money for more enforcement and some increased power for the state Attorney General to close down repeated violators of state laws (which has already led to the closing of two breeding operations).

As part of its outreach to U.S. officials, SCL is touting more than 20 years of experience in shaping voter perceptions and advising militaries and governments around the world on how to conduct effective psychological operations.

Although an initial poll showed more than half of voters were in favor of the ordinance as written, after an extensive advertising campaign (funded in part by the association's Issues Advocacy Fund) voters began to understand the ramifications of the proposed ordinance, which was projected to result in a decrease in jobs.