Sentences with phrase «politically active people»

Just that most politically active people in western countries love government intervention and will do whatever they can to increase it.

For whatever reason, online social networks seem to attract a disproportionate number of politically active people.

Bloggers» opinions have certainly become a major part of the political discussion — an issue raised by Instapundit or Josh Marshall can reach tens or hundreds of thousands of politically active people in a day.

Those who benefit from it tend to be the best educated, the most articulate, and the most politically active people in society.

I'm not going to go into any private conversations with a friend, obviously, but whatever she does, she's going to be a politically active person, she always has been.»

Not exact matches

Bocskor says the combination of an election year and marijuana on the ballot will bring people to the polls who are not usually politically active.

The reasoning goes that people that are dependent on Government transfer payments will become politically active if it is said political opponents are going to cut their free - lunch.

Expected to be more politically active and socially conscious, this new generation of young people are fired up about changing laws, ending violence and prejudice, and screaming loudly in the name of social justice.

Imagine a situation in which mass murderers kill thirty people in your politically active neighborhood for eight consecutive weeks.

He had been and remained an extraordinary person, having sailed around the world numerous times in the Merchant Marine both before and after a hectic politically active college career.

Mainstream media and the pundit class often seem obsessed with the political blogs to the exclusion of the rest of online campaigning, but it remains true that each major lefty blog and online community gathers politically passionate people who are disproportionately likely to be active in supporting (or opposing) campaigns.

A more complex analysis would take into account the desire for an alternative medium to conservative - dominated talk radio and people's desire to bypass information filters that they perceive as buttressing the Establishment (righties aren't the only ones pointing to media bias), plus the rise of the young and wired and anti-war among the ranks of the politically active.

Democracy should be about people being politically active, you can't have a passive democracy.»

Email isn't a good way to reach the uncommitted, but it's a terrific way to stay in touch with people who are already supporters — and who are themselves disproportionately likely to be both politically active and opinion leaders among their peers.

(Wild conjecture: I suspect that it has both to do with the relatively young age of social networking site users in a year in which the darn kids are politically active, as well as with the natural tendency of all social spaces to attract people who are in general directed outward into the public sphere.)

«I know many people, including myself, who, we might be politically active, but predominantly, we see ourselves as constituent and not outside aggravators,» Brett Keegan said.

«I'm somebody who has been politically active for a long time, and I remember people along the way helping me do things that I would not otherwise have been able to do,» she said.

«Social networking is important, but what we've shown in political science is that the people who are using the Internet, be it Facebook, Twitter or whatever else for political activities, are really the same people who are politically active offline anyway,» said Patrick Miller, a KU assistant professor of political science and the study's lead author.

Now, Im politically active, speaking publicly about the issues that affect people with inflammatory bowel disease, and Im part of the Crohns and Colitis Foundation of Americas Leadership Council.

Those numbers swell to to 70 percent and 62 percent, respectively, for people who vote regularly or are otherwise politically active.

Poorly targeted subsidies are often politically popular because they benefit affluent people, who tend to be vocal and politically active.

Young people should know that they are going to get a decidedly negative return out of Medicare, so that they can be politically active to reduce their losses.

I don't know how you arrive at the statement «most people» but it seems to me that a lot of people are rising to the challenge posed by environmental damage and rather than being scared, are becoming politically active in attempting to deal with it.

We are all aware that its money that makes the world go around, and that when people's ability to earn that money is affected they tend to get active politically.