Sentences with phrase «people get to the poll»

They're counting on those dire warnings having an effect by the time people get to the polling station, and probably they will, but in the meantime the histrionics just turn people away.

I have heard that it is common for some churches to offer bus services to help people get to the poll, with nobody complaining about that.

Provide Rides to the Polls Helping people get to the polls is a great way to ensure that they vote.

Not exact matches

The team will set out with the explicit goal of encouraging young people to get the polls.

Of course, those realities don't automatically translate to getting people to the polls.

«If you get that many people out to the polls, it's going to bend the turnout curve and skew dramatically to a Democratic candidate.»

And that the polls would show that they would be getting a minority PC government, with a Wildrose opposition, they thought this would be a good balance, a strong NDP Caucus putting pressure who would hold them to account and a lot of people woke up the next morning going what the heck happened to our Alberta.»

More than half of British women admit to flirting with men to get their own way, with a fifth saying they do so at work (according to a survey investigating gender bias and positive discrimination commissioned by comparison website confused.com, which polled 2,000 people).

It got Reagan elected and it got Bush elected and it's the surest way to get people to the polls.

Despite the lack of community cohesion, the poll found a majority of Brits, 65 %, believe that their neighbourhoods would be stronger if people were encouraged to get to know each other better.

A foul - mouthed Silverman pushes people to do whatever it takes to make it to the polls in spite of voter ID laws, while an uncensored Jackson orders disenchanted Obama supporters to «wake the f *** up» and get to work.

The survey found that 35 per cent of men polled said they hadn't got married because they hadn't met the right person compared to only 29 per cent of women.

Wake up people — these behaviors will never go away, and politicians of both parties have no intention of getting rid of them — if they did, there'd be no issues to divide us at the polls.

Scaring people enough to get them to the polls matters.

The polls in Florida show Romney's lead widening, and it's possible they underestimate what his real margain will be — due to his industry in getting his people to vote early.

Actually, on election day, instead of voting, I am going to invoke the power of prayer and spend the day praying as I know that this will get more people out to the polls to vote for Mitt Romney.

I say that as if it were a continuing process because I live in a state with early voting and despite what polling and the Obama campaign says, pollsters only get to talk to people who will talk to them and get to choose who they poll.

I bet if we did a poll when DJ was hired, about how long it would take UMD to get a Top15 recruiting class, the responses would have been 5 - 10 years or never...... most excited for the upcoming season since 2001 - by TerpfanMA on Jun 3, 2016 5:33 PM Isn't it a great feeling that we are able to think (that all of these comments are about) its a big time recruit instead of just people bitching about Edsall though?

So for a poll that isn't really a poll at all, as much as the definition of a democracy — one man, one vote, one set of furry slippers — Super Dave's Top 25 certainly seems to get to the heads of a lot of people, many of them well beyond their Clearasil years.

One such article (Untold also covered this article) claimed that 80 % of Arsenal supporters wanted Arsene Wenger to leave, but just clicking on the link reveals that the only people that were polled were the Arsenal Supporter's Trust (AST) a blatantly anti-Wenger group and the only surprise is that they did not get 100 % wanting Wenger out.

In any event, saying «everybody» cheats seems to be a stretch; while it's hard to get an exact number of people who are cheating because it's all self - reported (and you have to think that those who are lying to their spouse are probably not going to be totally honest when it comes to a poll on infidelity), some studies indicate it's about 20 percent of married couples while others suggest it may be as high as 60 percent to 70 percent.

And, with a recent poll suggesting that people in Sunderland would now vote to remain in the EU if there was another referendum, are the public getting cold feet?

Many of us followed Sasha's 2012 articles on Slate.com, which detailed how the Obama campaign team was using data, analytics and the scientific method to optimize voter outreach and get the people they needed to the polls.

Asking people how they plan to get to the polls, which the Analyst Institute has found can make a statistically significant difference in how many of them actually show up.

The main goal of the Democratic party's field organizing is to get their supporters off their butts and to the polls, either on Election Day or (even better) beforehand — absentee ballots are field - organizing gold, since every early ballot in the bank represents a voter who WO N'T need to be hassled in person or over the phone before November 4th.

The Ben Franklin Club knows how to get people to the polls.

Niou has also won much of the union support which could make all the difference on election day when it comes to knocking on doors and getting people to the polls.

A tight run - off is the perfect opportunity for field organizing to shine, since victory is all about getting your people to the polls.

Forecasting polls — polls based on asking the people to estimate how much one choice will get over another (see sample questions here, here, here, and here).

Christie isn't urging people in New Jersey to get to the polls in a tight election, he is promoting his own interview with Charlie Rose on CBS in which he denies all the sworn testimony about him in open court during the Brideggate trial which links him to the lane closures the touched off the scandal.

Based on a 10,000 - sample poll and focus groups around the country, the project asks what voters hope and expect to get from the Brexit deal, how they balance immigration control and access to the single market, the status of EU nationals already in Britain, people's confidence that the Prime Minister will secure a good deal, and how the Brexit negotiations compare in importance to other priorities.

It's showed up in terms of the number of people who do come to the polls and vote, but take a look at that race in Delaware, for instance, with Christine O'Donnell, and here's someone who got a big victory over a moderate Republican that was supported by the party structure.

He also said people are unaware that in minority neighborhoods — including African - American, Hispanic and Chinese — organizations «bus people around to vote» to different polling sites so they can get more votes for themselves, and argued New York needs a Republican - advocated voter I.D. law.

The Carpool Vote platform was designed to get people to the polls on election day or during early voting, or to transport people to get a voter ID before election day.

That such occurs is essentially because, having got as far as a polling place, most people will vote, but they don't have to.

Getting to the polling station keeps many people from voting.

As Dean campaign vets like me learned in 2004, all the Internet buzz and fundraising and volunteerism in the world is moot if you can't get enough people to the polls.

A lot of it is just down to people saying don't know, it happens in all polls, other bits are just the natural churn you get in all directions between parties.

We have been approaching this very scientifically; we have been doing our own scientific polling and even some of the polling being done by independent people, the numbers are looking great and so I am confident that from what is being done scientifically, plus or minus any margin of error, we will make 50 % plus... «We are looking at issues of concern to people in different regions and so the campaign message is tailored to address the concerns we find in any particular region and the response we have got is very enthusiastic.

If you identify as a an «atheist» (and to many religious people, there's very little inclination to make fine nuanced distinction between «nones», «non-affiliated», «agnostic», «atheist» - they all get conceptually lumped together as «unbelieving atheist heathen» (tm) from the point of view of someone highly devout in a monotheistic Abrahamic tradition), there's plenty of strongly religious people who - according to polls - would refuse to vote for you.

That notwithstanding, he said he won't be surprised to see Mr. Avedzi re-elected in this year's polls, saying «But he is sure to get re-elected; no wonder he has little incentive to use his position as MP to represent the interest and concerns of We the People, rather than of the government».

If you can do any of get, say, a couple of million people to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the minimum wage; win parliamentary seats by running on this issue; or provide polling evidence showing majorities would repeal the race, gender discrimination laws, etc then I will withdraw the claim about this being a minority position.

With turnout likely to be low and the Tea Partiers potentially a wash for the Republicans, the onus will be on Democratic campaigns to get their people to the polls.

«A lot of people didn't want to go to their new poll site and names weren't found in the book, but I made it a point during my campaign to inform people of their new poll site to the best of my ability even though we didn't get the new list until 4 days before the election.»

His goal over the next year, he said, is to «rebuild the infrastructure of the committee, moving forward on that at a pretty aggressive clip, and to figure out how are we going to get people, especially if all the predictions and polling about a huge Democratic wave this November come to pass, to support our candidate for town board.»

«The momentum we have has resulted in our seeing a lot of really positive responses,» said Sheehan, «but we still want to get people to the polls.

People didn't have power, they didn't know where to vote, they didn't have gas to get to the polls, but they still got out and exercised their civic duty.

«It's very confusing for voters, but a lot of people are going to see this for the first time when they get to the polls,» said Ulster County deputy elections commissioner Ashley Dittus.

I think that the polls may continue to swing wildly around for a few months, as we see how the economic situation pans out, I certainly get the impression in Chesterfield that an unusually high number of people are undecided at the moment, though there has certainly been an improvement in the likelihood to vote of Labour supporters in the last two or three months.

Massey, while saying that he believes people are not focused on his voting record, offered only that he worked long hours for many years and therefor often was unable to get to the polls.