Sentences with phrase «primary voter base»

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Mr. Corcoran would like to appeal to President Trump's voter base in his party's primary, and he has backed the armed - teacher program enthusiastically, calling it a «game changer.»

No matter the audience (the Massachusetts electorate of 2002, the Republican party base of this summer's primaries, or the average American swing voter this fall) and no matter the topic (abortion, health care, gun control, the tax code), Romney seeks first of all to sound agreeable.

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.

CNN: Passing significant test, Gingrich wins more S.C. evangelicals than rivals If there were any doubts that Newt Gingrich, a thrice - married convert to Catholicism, could connect with the evangelical voters who make up the Republican Party base, Saturday's South Carolina primary put them to rest, with the former House Speaker winning twice as many evangelical votes as anyone else in the race.

Besides this fear of crossover voters «stealing» the primary away from people who actually are in the party, one bonus purported from here is that a closed primary tends to let candidates talk more openly about their views during the primary since they are largely just speaking to their base.

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio chose opposite strategies in the weeks leading up to the early primaries, with Cruz basing his campaign on data analysis and voter modeling.

This is not true, given that huge numbers of eligible voters don't have strong opinions on issues and that even people with reasonably well formed views may not flip their vote (even in competitive primaries) based on those views.

But while inferences are easier to make based on actual data, what's more difficult to discern is what happened for numerous voters who were turned away or forced to file affidavit ballots because they weren't enrolled in a party or at least weren't enrolled in time for the primary they wanted to vote in.

Instant runoff voting, also known as ranked - choice voting, allows voters to rank primary candidates in order of preference so that if one candidate does not cross the required threshold for victory, the candidate with the least number of votes is eliminated and the votes are redistributed based on the second choice selected by voters who had selected the eliminated candidate first, and so on until a winner emerges.

Those voters aren't representative of the increasingly millenials - and - minorities makeup of the party's primary base, but the strategist predicted that four years in the political desert will leave Democrats desperate for a leader who can bring them back to the promised land.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

Queens Democratic Party insiders said Kevin Kim's win over his five opponents in the Sept. 15 primary stemmed from the candidate's ability to not only galvanize his base but also to draw voters from across the district.

The results of the primary poll clearly indicate what occurs when proper represention of the voter base is accounted for.

He made a clear pitch for Tea Party voters — the sort of people who are supposedly the base of support for Lazio's primary opponent, Carl Paladino.

Hillary Clinton could get burned by Wisconsin voters in today's Democratic primary, based on the latest polls, so the former secretary of state has set her focus on the upcoming battleground of New York.

With less than a week remaining before New York's April 19 primary, Clinton criss - crossed New York City yesterday, trying to rally a key part of her base: African - American voters.

Democrats and good - government groups, however, argued that a June primary gave overseas absentee voters more of a fair shot at getting their ballots in to the Board of Elections, based on the federal Move Act.

Also at 11 a.m., members of 24 social justice and immigrants» rights groups, community - based organizations and good government groups call for improved voting systems and a more transparent Board of Elections in light voter roll purges that affected the presidential primary elections, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«Republican voters deserve a primary campaign based on the issues,» Thompson consultant Darrin Schmitz said in the statement.

ALBANY — In the crowded race for the upcoming Democratic primary in the sprawling 31st Senate district that comprises much of Manhattan's west side, candidates have largely fielded campaign donations from their geographic bases, despite attempts to court voters from all portions of the demographically diverse district.

Still, Mr. Sanders can win if the primary electorate expands from its normal, narrow base: if new voters, young people and those who normally only vote in a presidential general show up at the polls.

The exact number of signatures varies based on the number of voters in the primary.

The campaign hopes to capitalize on Bush's lack of popularity, the changing demographics in Northern Virginia, high turnout — particularly among younger voters and African Americans — and a volunteer base that delivered a big win in the Democratic primary in February.

It would require political parties with less than 10 % of the registered voters opting to participate in primaries to declare a winner based on a candidate winning the highest number of voters, rather than a substantial plurality.

And he declared his ambitions to crack the mayor's base of African - American and Latino voters in the Democratic primary with an ultra-liberal message and the $ 40,000 currently in his campaign account.

Not all of the data is publicly available, as issue - based ads that ask voters to call their senator and encourage them to support or oppose policy is not considered political spending outside of a 60 - day window before a general election and 30 days before a primary, and is therefore not required to be reported to the FEC.

During the judicial primary elections September 12, Brooklyn Democratic voters seemed to base their selections for Civil Court judge primarily on gender; immune, apparently, to an ongoing squabble over the process for selecting the nominees, who are virtually guaranteed election in November given the borough's Democratic tilt.

For a city known for its progressive voter base, where the mayoralty is almost always decided during the Democratic primary, this year's mayoral contest has taken on a decidedly conservative bent.

AD86 Incumbent Bronx Democratic Assemblymember Victor Pichardo faces a repeat primary challenge from Hector Ramirez, a Bronx - based activist facing a 242 - count indictment for voter fraud related to the last time he ran against Pichardo.

Cuomo's poor results also correlate with Zephyr Teachout's better - than - expected showing in the Democratic primary, more evidence of a lack of enthusiasm about the governor among voters who might be expected to constitute his base.

The company closely associated with Ted Cruz's data - centric primary campaign has switched teams: Cambridge Analytica, the London - based outfit that boasts an ability to target voters based on their unconscious psychological biases is now working behind the scenes for Donald Trump.