Sentences with phrase «people vote their interests»

Right or wrong, people vote their interests right?

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Also of interest, the groups that were the most negative on the new economic policies were those with college degrees and people living in the Northeast, both demographics that exit polls show voted more for Hillary Clinton.

(Though not by Norquist, who characterizes the maneuver as telling the American people, «we had a vote, but because we did it in an interesting order, please don't notice that we raised your taxes by $ 100 billion.»

a person in respect of which all of the owners of interests, direct, indirect or beneficial, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors, are persons that are accredited investors,

The people who voted for the bill decided to sell out the public and vote against the public interest in their own interest and that of their backers.

It is not as if we live in a system where people vote their self - interest.

People will buy Bitcoin for the financial gains, and most won't realize they are voting with their wallets and self - interest to build a world based on peace and cooperation, even if that conflicts with their own political ideals.

Unfortunatly, the party of ME (republicans) have a lot of people brainwashed to think of no one but themselves and even in that case they have the people voting against their best interests and their own families best interests, it is too bad we have such selfish people in the U.S.

You vote for people to represent your interests and hope they will vote as you want them to.

So at the end of the day, even as a follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ (the name Christian has been so stained, refuse to call myself one to distance myself from traitors to God like Bush and just about every Conservative American), I'd vote for an astheist with good ideas and was brave enough to push for the interests of people, not corporations, then I would vote for them.

It outlines a number of areas for Christians to consider and advises people to vote for a party that is interested in «reversing the accumulation of power and wealth in fewer and fewer hands, whether those of the state, corporations or individuals».

It s no wonder our country is going down the tubes when people vote solely on thier own selfish short term interests as liberals do.

i will vote for barrack obama for president because i think he is the best man for the job and has the interests of all the people of this country at heart.

I think I will vote for the person that has EVERYONE's best interest in mind, not just some of the people, regardless of their personal beliefs.

In order to get a large number of people whom they regard as undereducated, easily led sheep to vote against their own best interests, they push emotional buttons, invoking images of Jesus and helpless babies, to make voters think this is what they stand for and want to protect.

He's one of the many fools twisting Christianity to manipulate people who identify themselves as Christians to vote against their best interests.

Instead of listening to these overpaid middle - aged greedy people who are telling us to vote against our own interests and demographics.

Here is a very interesting overview of how, and why, the people in Maine voted down their legislature's effort to legalize «gay marriage.»

However, with respect to the first of those issues, I find fascinating the British idea of «virtual representation,» which meant that so long as Parliament was a mixed deliberative body of persons that represented a variety of interests and opinions, then representation was real and valid even though citizens could not vote for members of Parliament.

For Christ's sake can we, an undisciplined people, begin to think in terms of a self - disciplined life, foregoing some of our transient pleasures for the deeper joy of helping humanity — to the point, even, of casting our votes for proposals which are contrary to our self - interest but which can help to alleviate poverty, promote peace, and confer dignity and self - respect on those less fortunate?

People need to understand, that if they make under 200k a year (thats like 90 % of america) then any votes for a republican, and it was been this way for 20 years, is a vote directly against your own best interests.

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The minutes of any Audit and Risk Committee meeting where a conflict of interest has been disclosed shall reflect that the conflict of interest was disclosed and that the interested person was not present for deliberations and did not vote on the matter.

But the people who speak of «personal responsibility» are the same people who vote for corporate interests that keep corporate welfare going.

As a result, it is in people's interest to vote for a major party candidate even if they are more aligned with another candidate.

What has been politically interesting on Facebook this year to me, by contrast, is individual PEOPLE using the site for their OWN political purposes — telling their friends to support a candidate, go vote, etc., the same way they might put a bumper sticker on their car or a sign in their yard.

He demonstrates, as is generally found, that with voluntary voting only, wealthy people are more likely to vote than poorer people, which could distort the representation of interests by electoral institutions.

«limit voting rights to people who are longer - term interest in the progress in the country or (veterans) demonstrated readiness to sacrifice to the country.»

My mantra is not to just create interesting online content that people will interact with, but create content that will get people to take an action in the physical world such as signing a petition, making a donation, volunteering and of course voting!

In interest of brevity I will stop here but obviously there are lots of ideas applicable here: if you don't like how your representative voted on some issue you can change your vote manually if voting is still in progress... people should be allowed to easily switch their representative on a monthly / yearly level... etc

If people want to see real change in society, they need to engage more in political issues and mandatory voting would encourage a greater level of interest.

Demeny voting, if established, would be a very interesting mixture of the two systems, as at one hand minors would get a vote, furthering the «one person, one vote» concept, while at the same time their parents would get more than one vote.

Ultimately therefore the decision to extend voting rights to younger people will depend on both whether Labour wins the next election and crucially whether the party sees it as advantageous to increase its vote share slightly at the expense of becoming more reliant on a coalition of disparate interests.

While there seems to be agreement that a lot of working class people certainly do not vote in their economic best interest, there isn't necessarily specific agreement as to why beyond the broad bullet points mentioned above.

I welcome the PM's decision to give the British people the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first pic.twitter.com/9P3X6A 2Zpw

«I welcome the prime minister's decision to give the British people the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first.

These unwelcome efforts by outside countries to subvert the will of the Liberian people and undo the results of the first round of the presidential vote are motivated by these leaders» selfish financial interests.

If the number of people who vote are reduced to those who are interested, the candidates are going to make a better effort than repeating pretty words such as: education, jobs, health, etc..

Speaker after speaker in the House of Commons debates on Article 50 declared that, although he or she voted Remain and believed Brexit was not in the national interest, the referendum vote represents the ultimate expression of democracy and therefore the «will of the people» must be obeyed.

The Labour leader said: «I welcome the prime minister's decision to give the British people the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first.»

When politicians start giving the people of Europe a vote and they RESPECT the outcome, instead of getting them to vote till they get the right answer namely the one the vested interests want, I might start supporting it.

With the right circumstances of social discourse, education, media coverage, and so on - powerful or interested minorities make people believe or support one thing or the other, and they vote accordingly.

«This is another political stunt by people more interested in getting print than votes.

He claimed that doing so was in the public interest, i.e. to allow people the freedom to vote for whom they wanted (namely Paul Biya).

And if the Greek people had voted an anti-austerity coalition into government in June 2012 (to which they were close to doing), would such an administration have acted in the «economic interest» of Greece?

As the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment gets closer, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for the creation of a national panel that would provide support to local interests seeking to educate people about the drive for women's voting rights.

«In short, the Republicans have an interest in having as few people as possible voting,» said Gianaris, whose party enjoys a significant enrollment advantage over the GOP in blue New York.

Cameron staked his position as Prime Minister on a Remain vote, something he repeatedly told the British people was in their best interests.

In 2013, the New York Public Interest Research Group complained to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics that the party's efforts amounted to lobbying — the ads didn't urge people to vote for someone, but rather to support a pending policy action — and should be disclosed as such.

Asked how he could possibly ask Labour voters to vote for him when he spent most of the last week encouraging a Labour candidate to stand against him, Mr Davis replied: «I'm asking everybody and we've had support from Tories, of course, Liberal activists, people who say «I've voted Labour all my life» and - most interestingly of all - people who said I've never taken an interest in politics all my life but this has galvanised my interest.»