Sentences with phrase «position than the voters»

Additionally, what makes you think a local elected official is any better at vetting competence and qualifications of a candidate for official position than the voters?

Not exact matches

Some possibilities are that Trump voters are more protectionist than the average Republican voter, or that they instinctively back his positions based on a cult of personality, or that Trump is an inherently divisive figure even within the Republican Party and that this extends to his positions on policies.

That is probably much closer to the position of the party's median voter than the Senate's Gang - of - Eight plan.

Liberal positions on abortion and same - sex marriage have repelled more voters than they have attracted.

During the past forty years, voters have been taught by TV to make political judgments based on how they feel about a particular candidate, rather than how to evaluate a candidate's actual positions and actions.

«Rather than rumor mongering, Team Turner might better spend their time explaining their evolving positions on raising taxes and the 2nd amendment for Republican primary voters,» Catalfamo said in response to my question about whether change was afoot in the Long campaign.

That has left the Senate Democrats in a somewhat awkward position of either trying to convince voters that they have more in common with a fellow Democrat than the Republicans do — even if Cuomo himself won't come out and say it — or sniping at Cuomo from the sidelines by questioning his Democratic bona fides (a la Sen. Tony Avella, who has become something of an expert at this).

Voters liked Eisenhower much more than they liked the GOP and he proved unable to shift the party to a more moderate position.

The left - wing positions of Central Scotland's SNP and Labour candidates within their own parties highlight that the political culture of the region's voters may be more stable than dramatic vote swings suggest.

Most constituencies are occupied by safe seat politicians who see little need to engage with the voters other than at election time or to get a front seat position in their parties.

Voters in marginal constituencies like Glenda Jackson's Hampstead and Kilburn know more about parties» policy positions than those in safe seats like Gordon Brown's Kirkaldy and Cowdenbeath, according to research carried out by the University of Nottingham's Caitlin Milazzo.

The survey of more than 1,000 New York voters by Quinnipiac University shows that although Cuomo appears for now to be in a strong position to win re-election in 2014, 52 percent of the state's voters say he has done a «not so good» or «poor» job of «cleaning up corruption» in Albany.

If campaign funding were really capped / limited, the voters would at least have a chance of sorting out candidates and positions, rather than being totally fooled [most times] by campaign slogans, negative advertising and the like.

Far from taking an extreme anti-business position, Miliband is actually significantly less anti big - business than most voters.

Republicans are more forgiving than Democrats when it comes to the personal issues of a candidate who's running for public office, according to a new Morning Consult / Politico poll that shows GOP voters care more about policy positions.

The bottom line is come November voters can do little more than cross their fingers and hope the winners of county - level and Supreme Court judicial elections serve in their home county and are assigned to the positions they campaigned to fill.

All this puts the Lib Dems in a very powerful position: their voters are closer in policy terms to Labour voters than Conservatives but they are demonstrably able to do a deal with the latter.

Of course, this may be partly due to our sample; voting app users tend to be younger and better educated than the norm, so even Conservative voters in our sample make take a more «cosmopolitan» position than older, less well - educated Tories.

«So your position is, a decision was made very early on before voters had a say, and that's fine because the DCCC knows better than the voters of the 6th Congressional District, and we should line up behind that candidate,» asked Tillemann during the conversation.

«One study found that voters could not even figure out which candidates were moderate and which were extreme, while another study found that the positions candidates took in the 2012 campaign were actually more polarized than before.»

«The one thing this political crisis has show,» the prime minister says, «is that if an MP has more than 50 per cent of the voters, the majority of voters supporting him or her, then I think that is a better position to be in.

Analysis of voter research showed that men more often occupy positions that are under pressure as a result of globalisation than women.

Position away, O ye spinners: The good news for all who are not awards voters is that this newer, shorter World — shorter, anyway, in the category of languid movies over two hours — is that it communicates Malick's luminous artistic vision of innocence and loss, wildness and order, risks taken and chances lost, with more clarity than his first cut.

And it's pretty clear (though not accepted by everyone) that ideological identity counts more than scientific knowledge when voters are choosing policy positions.

Look at assylum seeker policies, the ideological position that borders should be open to low information leftist voters even though the means has killed some 1200 people, it's the same thing, ideology is held to be more important than individual people.

It's a position that depends on ignoring the overwhelming evidence that voters care more about energy prices than climate.

Here's a slightly more difficult position to defend: We don't know whether adaptation will be cheaper or easier than mitigation, but, since it is the only one likely to be acceptable to voters in a democratic society, it is the only morally acceptable one.

And the evidence suggests that voters are more open to carbon taxation than the present Republican position that climate change is no big deal and requires little federal response.