Sentences with phrase «parties target voters»

It aims to help political parties target voters with tailored messaging, based on information gleaned from a variety of sources.

Not exact matches

Government action to influence the price of goods might strike Canadians as out of place in the Conservative playbook but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories are acutely concerned about dispelling the notion they're the party of «big business» as they target middle - class voters.

BC Liberal operative Bonney was hired to be communications director for the government's multiculturalism branch and tasked to carry out the party plan to target ethnic voters in swing ridings for the 2013 election.

As is now famous, the company harvested the Facebook data of 50 million Americans that it obtained via a third - party app, and used it to target voters.

The investigation is part of a broader probe, launched last year, into how political parties are using data analytics to target voters.

It uses such data to target voters with hyper - specific appeals, including on Facebook and other online services, that go well beyond traditional messaging based on party affiliation alone.

Nuttall was elected Ukip leader in a landslide victory yesterday, and immediately vowed to «replace the Labour party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain» by targeting working class voters.

The priority should be to target swing voters rather than planning alliances with other parties.

He attributes the Republicans» doubling of their normal share of the Ohio black vote in the 2004 election to the party's ability to reach out to the exact voters likely to respond to targeted messages and to not waste time and money on others.

Cool stuff on the digital advertising front today: the Montana Democratic Party is using DSPolitical's voter models and targeting ability to put ads like this one in front of Montana voters who could lose health coverage if Republicans repeal Obamacare.

The patented technology provides the ability to use publicly available voter registration records and political demographic data such as party affiliation, voting history and political geography to target and place advertising and messaging across millions of websites, mobile apps and multiple digital devices including addressable TVs.

The same will be true in the struggle for control of Congress next year, as state parties, individual campaigns and outside groups spend tens of millions of dollars targeting their voters and working to get them to the polls.

The Women's Equality party is only three years old and yet in this, our first local election, around a quarter of voters in our target areas gave one of their three votes to us.

The interesting angle from our point of view was the part — reported early by Yahoo News — that urges the party to create a data infrastructure to power the kind of voter targeting at which the Obama campaign (among others) has excelled.

An obviously relieved and elated Rick Lazio took to the stage at the convention to accept his party's gubernatorial nomination and wasted no time in targeting his Democratic foe, calling on voters to «reject the status Cuomo.»

Since the middle class comprise the majority of eligible voters, the Democratic Party has been targeting them in its message, while continuing to preserve and enhance the programs that target the poor.

The NY - 27, represented by Rep. Kathy Hochul, is a top target for the national Republican Party, which sees the Democratic victory in a special election an exception, not a rule, for the deeply conservative upstate voters.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur has directed the rank and file of the NDC to target floating voters during the party's campaign and not concentrate two much on members and supporters.

Saland's campaign and Senate Republicans also touted their absentee ballot program and targeting of specific voters in the lawmaker's first serious party primary.

And it will be no different this fall, when each of the party's presidential nominees — with vastly more resources at their disposal — target specific voter blocs over the Supreme Court in many of the same ways the Senate campaigns will.

Taking their lead from some of the best US campaigns, parties have been making extensive use of polling, local intelligence from voters, and additional useful information like consumer data, to produce microtargeted campaigns to raise turnout amongst specific groups in target seats.

The party has mobilized nearly two dozen activist groups, including the CNY Solidarity Coalition, to target Democratic voters who live in the eight districts of the IDC members.

Parties still treated ethnic minority's as «bloc votes» to be targeted, it added, claiming that «engaging solely with leading figures within traditional clan - type structures or religious institutions can be divisive and risk creating «community gatekeepers» rather than real engagement with voters».

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

Despite rules disallowing the explicit targeting of voters by their political party, there are creative ways to get literature into the hands of a politician's most - likely voters, according to multiple former legislative staffers.

Political parties, in league with tech firms, target voters in a few marginal seats to sway national results.

Nigel Farage says only a third of UKIP voters are ex-Tories, and the party is to target traditional Labour voters.

A key element in the Democratic win in Virginia this week was the ability to adapt Obama campaign capabilities to integrate historic voter file data and recent data from field organizers and partner groups with analytics capabilities to develop targeting models, representatives from NGP VAN, Blue Labs and the Virginia Democratic Party said in a press call Friday.

Candidates for virtually any public office rely on their state parties for help identifying which voters to target with phone calls, home visits and mailings.

The early - voting trend does not benefit one party over the other, experts say, because each is targeting infrequent voters.

Railing against the Soviets» «dirty jackboots» all over Europe, and how «Lady Thatcher saved us» from socialism made him sound stuck in a geo - political past, or at least a battered history textbook, not relevant to Conservative defectors, floating voters, and even loyal Conservative voters the party needs to target today.

The strategic judgment must be, that while he is unlikely to hit his chosen target of reducing net migration levels to «tens of thousands» by 2015, his policies will have made enough of a dent that voters will feel that, in contrast to the other two parties, at least the Conservatives tried.

The Conservatives are using an updated form of Labour's Excalibur machine which they used to get to power in 1997 — this one called Merlin — but now combining the targeting of Excalibur with extensive polling of groups as large as 10,000 enabling the party to rapidly produce pieces of literature to snare wavering groups of voters.

There is a significant number of party - unaffiliated voters to woo as well as moderate Democrats and Republicans, but most of the votes in play for Dietl or Malliotakis are largely out of the de Blasio target area to begin with.

At the moment you're probably right that even if Con picked up every UKIP voter, it wouldn't affect the result in those most marginal seats... but it would make a difference in target seats further down the list, and consequently to Labour's majority / largest party prospects.

Labour has created a sophisticated new social media tool that will allow it to target individual voters with tailored policy messages, the party's campaigns chief has told the Guardian.

Last year he admitted that many ethnic minority voters in his target seat of Dudley North, held by a Labour majority of just 649, think that the Tories «remain a racist party».

As the loss of safe seats is rare, parties target resources on a small number of floating voters in marginal seats.

Ukip's deputy leader says the party are deliberately targeting disillusioned working class voters, describing them as the «low - hanging fruit in politics».

I suspect that they will win some of the Labour seats on their target list (and I listed the top 50 in that blog post last summer), but I'm not convinced that there will be that many: their position on Iraq marked them out from the other two parties at the last election, leading them to the high water mark they reached - but Iraq will not be an issue next year and it is hard to see which message they could put out which would resonate with voters in the same way.

The then Shadow Attorney General was accused of alienating Labour from the British public and key target voters, which left the former party leader «angry».

Officials revealed they were targeting «undecided» women voters in the party's vital marginal seats.

Perhaps the party is so far ahead that it doesn't matter that 55 % of target voters think David Cameron is lightweight?

Throughout history, political parties have collected information on voters to gauge their views and target political messages.

Respondents of this poll were matched to a target sample of Massachusetts registered voters based on gender, age, race, education, party identification, ideology, and political interest.

In addition, Mosley stated there was clear evidence someone had used the Conservative Party's voter contact information database (CIMS) to identify the targets for this voter suppression effort.

The investigation is part of a broader probe, launched last year, into how political parties are using data analytics to target voters.

In light of revelations that data from 87 million Facebook users was improperly harvested for use in targeting American voters, Facebook could have simply pledged to turn off the spigot to third - party developers.

The firm believed those profiles were better predictors of how voters could be swayed through targeted ads than traditional data on party registration and voting patterns.

Cambridge Analytica, a third - party data - mining company, uses personal data and strategic communications to target electoral campaign info at voters.