Sentences with phrase «primary election voters»

Tulchin Research interviewed 500 likely primary election voters yielding a 4.38 point margin of error.

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In Oregon, only 36 percent of voters went to the polls in the 2014 primary, the last non-presidential election year.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP)-- Arkansas» highest court on Wednesday said the state can enforce a voter ID law in the May 22 primary election despite a judge declaring the measure unconstitutional.

Voters in Illinois are headed to the polls to cast their ballots in primary elections across the state.

Primary election votes, and whether they mobilized young voters, will be a better gauge of the movement's effects, she said.

Although many outside the US are drawing conclusions about Americans based on our presidential candidates, they might be surprised to learn that only 14 per cent of eligible voters chose either Clinton or Trump during the primary elections, (where both parties vote to nominate a candidate to represent them in the general election) and less than 30 per cent of eligible Americans voted at all.

10 percent of voters who supported Ted Cruz in the GOP primary now support Clinton in the general election.

9 percent of voters who supported Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary now support Trump in the general election.

20 percent of voters who supported John Kasich in the GOP primary now support Clinton in the general election.

Due to a voter - approved initiative that has the two highest primary vote - getters appearing on the general election ballot regardless of party, some November races for major state offices are contests between a leftwing Democrat and a radical Democrat.

And who knows, perhaps once voters at large understood what primaries were for and how they worked, they could be just as motivated as on election day itself?

As he faces a tough primary challenge from former NYC Comptroller John Liu, Sen. Tony Avella has picked up the support of the New York League of Conservation Voters, which today will name the Queens senator its top priority candidate in advance of the Sept. 9 election.

I think you can avoid this with (i) a primary election day for all parties where voters have to choose which party to vote for OR (ii) a Labour - only primary election day where people who want to vote have to register first.

If you imagine the American presidential election as a single constituency (for the sake of ease), both parties put up a wide range of candidates who, through the primary process, voters finely tune to the two best options.

Betty Ann Canizio - Aqil, a Board of Elections chief clerk in Brooklyn, is expected to be suspended after a vote by the board's commissioners — the second BOE official to be suspended over New York's primary day snafu that led many voters to be turned away at the polls.

@user4012 about 2), the final election day is just the end of a lengthy electoral process; if voters are better educated and use that education all through the process a demagogue should be stopped earlier in the process (so, for a party supporter it would not be end as [My demagogue] vs [candidate from other party], because [My demagogue] would have been voted out in the primaries; in these primaries such a voter would have the option to vote for other candidates more ideologically acceptable).

Ah, sweet spin... you got ta love phrases like «controlled excitement,» particularly the day BEFORE the primary election, when there's still time for a campaign to hope to get late - deciding voters to jump on the bandwagon.

«The League of Women Voters, Common Cause, NYPIRG and a host of other concerned organizations have repeatedly called upon the Senate Republicans to join us in our call for a unified, early primary election date.

Instead, she laid the blame at the feet of the Democratic Party — speficially the Rev. Al Sharpton, who publicly declared his support for keeping the partisan primary system in place last weekend, saying nonpartisan elections would enable self - financed candidates like the billionaire mayor to take over the political system and disenfranchise minority voters.

The New York League of Conservation Voters has targeted two Assembly primaries — one in Western NY and another in Westchester — as «high - priority» races in the upcoming Sept. 14 elections.

Anyone who follows politics will tell you voter turnout in a primary election is typically low, but Thursday's 7.5 percent voter turnout in the Buffalo - area was among the lowest in recent memory.

Despite some Republican party activists asserting this is the most important presidential election since George Washington was elected (no, really), voter turnout in several cases was lower than in the 2008 Republican Primary.

The only holiday we're talking about is the day of the actual election, but counting primaries and run - offs there could be more days throughout the year that require voter participation.

Second, these folks are properly focusing on the two elements critical to swinging primary and general elections: money and voter turnout.

While Biaggi voted in the general election's of 2016, 2014 and 2012, she did not vote in any of the Democratic primaries, often the where the real race takes place in New York since voter registration in the city is so overwhelmingly Democratic.

Staten Island Republican Rep. Daniel Donovan maintains that two men associated with his campaign never impersonated Board of Elections investigators when they questioned Conservative Party voters who had signed petitions for his GOP primary rival, Michael Grimm.

The DN's Juan Gonzalez believes a «cloud» will remain over the NY - 13 primary election until allegations of voter suppression are investigated.

Nonetheless, as a tactical device it was highly successful - certainly many of the primary voters will now feel invested in the candidate and vote for her again at the general election.

Whoever wins the special election will have to run again in a primary and a general election in the new so - called «Super-Jewish» district that has a far higher concentration of Orthodox voters the 27th SD currently does.

What is so galling about his choice of Nov 2 for a special election is that voters in NY - 29 will go to the polls to vote in the primary elections in September.

Lara and Padilla said in a joint statement the bill would combine the presidential primary with elections for statewide office and legislative races which would «help engage new voters from the top of the ticket down to legislative races.»

But this is not a general election, and Joe voter on the street (who love Tony unabashedly) won't be showing up for a primary, county supporters will.

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So with Messer out, the «primary vote» will be safe for Senator Stavisky putting S.J in a perpetual uphill climb: registering new voters and pulling them out on election day, which is not as easy as it sounds epecially when voters doubt a challenger's ability to trounce an incumbent of this magnitude.

This could help him ward off a potential primary challenger in the 2018 election, and improve his standing among Democratic presidential primary voters in 2020.

(It is not necessary to give a party choice for a general election; however, in a party primary a voter may participate in only one political party's primary; thus a choice must be designated so that the appropriate ballot can be provided.

On turnout, as with a primary, special elections tend to bring out a more involved subset of voters, clouding any apples - to - apples prediction for the next general election.

In Tea Party activists and in angry voters electing or putting on the ballot, excuse me, in primaries, people like Christine O'Donnell in Delaware — does that create a situation where the Republican Party in a general election is so out of the mainstream, is so filled with candidates who are so crazy that the party actually ends up blowing an incredible opportunity that's been handed to them on a silver platter and fails to capitalize in a significant way on the intense voter dissatisfaction?

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Responding to an accusation from his primary opponent, Rep. Daniel Donovan maintains that two men associated with his campaign never impersonated Board of Elections (BOE) investigators when they questioned Conservative Party voters who had signed a petition supporting Michael Grimm.

That's why I believe that Conservative voters should have the opportunity to choose a real conservative in your Party's September 14th Primary election.

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election.

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In legal terms, that deadline was 25 days before the general election prior to the next primary a voter wishes to vote in.

In Minnesota, primary elections are open, meaning that a voter can participate in the party primary of his or her choice.

The extent to which the state controls the primary election machinery appears from the Texas statutes, as follows: Art. 3118, Vernon's Texas Statutes, provides for the election of a county chairman for each party holding a primary by the «qualified voters of the whole county,» and of one member of the party's county executive committee by the «qualified voters of their respective election precincts.»

The special election kept not enrolled voters at home because they could not vote in a presidential primary.

«Now they're doing the same in New York's 19th, where a crowded Democratic primary field is going to force the eventual challenger to embrace far - left positions unpalatable to general election voters.»

This answer says it is even a crime for an independent voter to attempt to participate in a closed primary election!

The incumbent Member of Parliament for the area Nii Armah Ashitey has sued Dr. Rawlings praying the court to declare her election null and void since she was not a registered voter in the constituency as of the time she contested the primaries of the ruling party.

Two more «yes» voters — Sens. Mark Grisanti and Steve Saland — both of who won their Sept. 13 GOP primaries (or, in Saland's case, eked out a victory)-- will face continued opposition from so - called «values voters» in the November general election, McGuire pledged.