Sentences with phrase «rather than the voters»

Rather than voters holding their noses and staying loyal to the Tories they voted in large numbers for Corbyn.

Their recovery will not be automatic, and following the instincts of the Labour movement, rather than the voters, will move them further from victory.

Like in 1798, there were cantons where the council voted rather than all voters.

Bridgeport's Mayor Bill Finch claims that he, rather than the voters, should be allowed to choose the members of the Board of Education.

This time it was the legislature, rather than the voters, that rejected the entire proposal.

Not exact matches

In saying that the government stands with «consumers» — rather than citizens or voters or, God forbid, shareholders — Clement diminishes the federal government's importance, making it nothing more than the complaints desk at the Better Business Bureau.

For example, he insisted it enables volunteers to enter voter information they collect on door steps on tablets rather than with paper.

Although Chinese rulers do not have to face voters to stay in office, as Trump will likely do in four years, they have a far more intuitive sense that it is their ability to deliver economic prosperity rather than their ideological purity that will keep them in power.

It also mentioned that governments might be inclined to organise referenda to counteract the «perception that the EU is an «elite - driven» project,» as it notes that notion has been lingering since the start of the recession as «voters increasingly associat [e] the EU project with austerity, rather than a source of union and prosperity.»

Rather than assuming that all women or African Americans or working - class whites will respond to the same message, they target individual voters with emotionally charged content — in other words, ads designed to tug on emotional biases.

Voters back debt reduction over tax cuts: More voters overall believe the government should pay down debt rather than cut income tax — except those who face higher cost of living presVoters back debt reduction over tax cuts: More voters overall believe the government should pay down debt rather than cut income tax — except those who face higher cost of living presvoters overall believe the government should pay down debt rather than cut income tax — except those who face higher cost of living pressures.

Many voters believe that a financial bubble enriches the economy rather than turning the surplus into a flow of interest and banking fees.

The national income accounts initially were designed by statisticians, but now they're designed by lobbyists, and the lobbyists work in Congress to say here's how we want to depict the economy as if it's actually benefiting the voters instead of specifically benefiting the FIRE sector — Finance, Insurance and Real Estate — which depicts itself as contributing to growth rather than being a parasite on growth, as I've described in Killing the Host.

It is getting tiresome hearing everyone on the radio yapping about how voters were conned by the slick campaign machinery to vote NDP; or that we voted against the PCs rather than for the NDP; or that we were angry and so made rash decisions that we will promptly regret because everyone knows what a hash the NDP have made wherever they have reigned.

This will require candidates to build broad support in 87 constituencies across the province, rather than relying on the ability to sign up large groups of voters in concentrated regions.

And the brouhaha shifts the national discussion to divisive social issues that could repel swing voters rather than economic ones that could attract them in a climate of high unemployment and stumbling recovery, the GOP officials said.

Trump has an almost preternatural ability to sense and to respond to the anxieties of the average citizen — or at least the average primary voter — rather than pandering to them reluctantly.

Although he has a track record of breaking promises — both to his voters and his wives — some evangelicals would rather gamble with Trump than lose for certain with Clinton.

Two out of five voters don't think Trump or Clinton would be a good president; half say they're voting against a candidate rather than in support of one.

I am pretty sure Obama is agnostic, or probably atheist, and it is unfortunate that he has to pander to the black voter and pretend he is a Christian, rather than use his influence to raise consciousness in the community.

A politician loses an election rather than lie to the voters.

Just as candidate Trump pledged to say «Merry Christmas» in his White House, rather than President Obama's tepid «Happy Holidays,» and just as he promised to choose an anti-Roe justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia, Trump's «We want God» assured religious voters that he would not apologize for his faith nor deny that it would play a role in his decision - making.

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.

(Onlyin California have country clubs gotten a break on real estate taxes: a yearago voters approved an amendment to assess club land at the rate specified forrecreational purposes rather than at building value.)

Rather than wait until the district's bonding authority is hemmed in, the park district is asking voters to give the district the authority to raise its regular tax rate, if necessary, to cover the difference, Hall said.

Obama's claim to voters that «We are the change that we have been waiting for», has echoes in Cameron's «Be the change», although his is a message directed more at traditionalists in his own party, (start being nice to the planet and the immigrants) rather than the electorate at large.

Rather than have 200 hardcore Tories in a constituency select a hard - right Tory MP, Conservative candidates would have to moderate their views and platform in order to appeal to non-partisan and even Labour voters if they want to pass the primary.

Then voters choose how to group rather than someone else choosing groupings for voters.

Ergo, since voters don't always know what's good for them, this gives rise to the category of moral wrongdoing called populism, in which politicians give voters what they want, rather than giving voters what they would want if they were better informed and / or better at processing the relevant kind (s) of information.

«Push polls» are actually political telemarketing — telephone calls disguised as research that aim to persuade large numbers of voters and affect election outcomes, rather than measure opinions.

Just as those who give to charity want to see as much as possible of their money go to the intended beneficiaries rather than chief executives» salaries, and investors in companies want to see overhead and administration costs kept down, elected politicians want to show voters that they are running a tight ship.

It is hard to win elections by constantly repeating that the opponents are bad rather than offering voters a credible alternative.

European elections are chiefly national rather than European spectacles and so the parties try to please their respective parochial voters.

By a five - point margin, voters say they would prefer «someone else» rather than re-electing Owens.

Voters are most concerned about the issues (i.e., they're more often searching for information about issues rather than directly for information about a given candidate)

«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.

Voters are tired of corrupt politicians who'd rather line their own pockets than work for the tax payers and we're confident that the South Shore will reject Chris McGrath and the corrupt status quo on Tuesday.»

So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:

By contrast, I assume that if the vote is nation - wide, then candidates may be trying to convince extremist voters to vote for their candidate, rather than sitting it out because the candidate is too moderate, or voting for a minor party candidate instead.

The priority should be to target swing voters rather than planning alliances with other parties.

This degree of supporter influence seems to have gone too far, however: Royal's desire to be a «platform for the people» led French voters to see her as being blown by the winds of opinion rather than having strong convictions herself.

Here, voters pick a party, rather than a particular candidate.

TechPresident reports that the Obama campaign tested their new «Dashboard» system to let volunteers from around the country make calls into Wisconsin, the AFL - CIO has trialed software that matches voter lists with volunteers» Facebook friends to let them call targets that they actually know rather than total strangers, and the Walker campaign combined VoIP with digital voter files to automate the connection between identification calls and data entry.

Wouldn't David Cameron have been better not to pretend that Cornwall — rather than Turkey — was the real summer holiday and rather reassure voters that the Tories under him willnot revert to policies that entrench, nay, widen the income gap?

We also plan to reanalyse public opinion surveys (with a temporal component) to see how affective rhetoric influences individual voters» actual political choices (rather than the whole electorate).

By a margin of 55 - 28 percent voters say they are prepared to re-elect her rather than support «someone else» (little changed from 54 - 29 percent in June).

But polls suggest that many voters blame George W Bush rather than Barack Obama for the mess, and I suspect that many see Romney's economics as part of the same «trickle - down» tradition that they associate with the Credit Crunch.

If that is so then they might want to take it a bit more seriously and serve up the coverage that voters need and deserve rather than the lines that they've agreed on their own private WhatsApp chat.

This seems to be meant for the opinion - leader crowd rather than for potential voters.

According to its supporters, one of the primary virtues of the electoral college is that winning candidates must obtainconcurrent majorities from around the country to win, rather than appeal to clusters of voters whose votes could be aggregated across states and regions but nevertheless might not represent all strata of society.