Sentences with phrase «retaining as voters»

This means the SNP is retaining as voters that share of their vote, probably as much as one - third, who do not support independence.

Not exact matches

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

As the Republican nominee, Bob Dole's task in 1996 was also straightforward: to retain the support George Bush received in 1992 and find enough new voters to win.

While voters are nearly evenly divided between the two candidates on most issues, Hayworth is viewed as stronger on taxes and the federal budget deficit in a district that favors repealing health care and retaining the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.

HB 141 would have prevented members of one party from switching their party registration on primary day so as to vote in another party's primary, although it would have retained the ability of independent voters to switch to any party on primary day for the purpose of voting in that party's primary.

I'm now working at City Hall on the policing and crime agenda across London, but I'll also be drawing on experiences I gained working for a South London Council and as a Londoner to make sure I deliver an exciting campaign that engages new voters and retains our core Tory vote in Lewisham.»

The DRE retains an electronic copy of the other layer and gives the physical copy as a receipt to allow the voter to confirm that the electronic ballot was not later changed.

As well as attracting the support of voters who instinctively vote Labour, they would retain control of the party's institutional donors, campaigning operation and campaigning data, as well as a bigger share of the Short Money given out to opposition partieAs well as attracting the support of voters who instinctively vote Labour, they would retain control of the party's institutional donors, campaigning operation and campaigning data, as well as a bigger share of the Short Money given out to opposition partieas attracting the support of voters who instinctively vote Labour, they would retain control of the party's institutional donors, campaigning operation and campaigning data, as well as a bigger share of the Short Money given out to opposition partieas well as a bigger share of the Short Money given out to opposition partieas a bigger share of the Short Money given out to opposition parties.

I think he retains his seat even as the district runs 400 voters in favor of the Democrats.

Olumekun said that as was the case in the 2015 General Election, the commission would retain the use of permanent voter card and smart card reader for conduct of the election.

2 votes in the general election was the difference here between having a Liberal Democrat MP and potential resurgence next time around for the party as unionist voters flock to them in opposition to the SNP, which might have allowed the party to retain the seat even with boundary changes at the next general election, and what seems to be SNP representation for the foreseeable future as the unionist vote in North East Fife fractures off to the Conservatives.

As it happens, any result is legitimate becasue voters decided to retain first past the post in 2011.

The detailed YouGov results provide much information about second and subsequent preferences, although they predict a rather unrealistic low switch in allegiance in AV first preference votes from FPTP voting intentions — both Labour and Tories, for example, are predicted to retain 96 % of their FPTP voters as first preferences which must understate the switch to UKIP and the Greens, for example.

If Ratatouille still retains a viable contender as a spoiler, it's not because audiences continue to drink whatever Pixar puts in the Kool - Aid that gets, as Laurie Anderson would say, «ah - dults» hailing each of their new movies as the studio's everlasting masterpiece of classic filmmaking (making it simply a matter of time before one of them actually wins an award outside the best animated feature playpen), but rather because its presence in this category might remind voters that one or two of the striking writers aren't just trying to feed their own mouths.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.