Sentences with phrase «see voter numbers»

Proposed changes to the electoral register are likely to see voter numbers fall significantly.

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I've also been surprised by the number of voters who see it as a political movie — a valorization of the marginalized (a mute woman, a gay man, an African - American woman, and a fish dude) against the forces of Michael Shannon and his ilk.

Even as Mr. Harper pledged Tuesday to steer clear of radical change, investors and businesses in Canada and around the world are waiting to see how his government handles a number of hot files, now that the Conservatives won't face voters for at least four years.

But both parties saw sharp increases in the number of voters who want to hear less about religion from politicians.

As The Nation pointed out after the election, «One out of every four Trump voters voted with the Supreme Court in mind, and it's a safe bet that a very substantial number of those see the Supreme Court through the lens of abortion politics... If you can rally voters around abortion, few other issues matter.»

The next three years will see a number of issues relevant to rural voters feature in the public debate, including the re-regulation of the sugar industry and a renewed focus on animal welfare.

I just can't see how this is Dems «shooting themselves in the foot» — you need to show me a significant number of voters who were turned against him because of this illustration for me to believe that.

Indications of such a trend have been identified by some in recent elections in the UK (Brexit) and the US (Trump): voters disenchanted with globalised competition and fearing of job or status loss are seen to have voted in particularly high numbers for Brexit and Trump and against the established order.

The 2004 election cycle saw a dramatic rise in the number and size of nonprofit organizations that bought TV ads, organized voter turnout drives and conducted political «education» campaigns that were effectively working on behalf of (or against) one candidate or party, and because they used «soft money» in the process, their donors weren't limited in how much they could give and didn't fall under the strict disclosure rules required when trying to influence an election.

Only 26 %, including 60 % of Labour voters, said they would rather see Miliband in Number Ten.

By summing up the behavior of the individual voters, we can then see how these numbers affect behavior at the state level.

«A smaller number, 44 percent of these likely voters, say they haven't seen a Teachout commercial or been contacted by the Teachout campaign.

The number of voters who want to see the Welsh assembly abolished has risen 10 % in the past four years.

And, second, it's hard to see a large number of voters organizing such a concerted effort to oust an incumbent Democratic congressman without some broader coordination from national GOPers that, to date, has not developed.

The first major poll in the race between U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm and his challenger Domenic Recchia showed the incumbent clinging to a slim four - point lead among likely voters in the 11th Congressional District (Brooklyn - Staten Island), but both sides said they see a silver lining buried within the numbers.

Those voters have been defecting to the Republican camp in alarming numbers during the Obama years, part of the reason we've seen huge Republican gains among governors and state legislatures, and both houses of Congress controlled by Republicans.

HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. — Hoosick Falls hasn't seen numbers like Tuesday's voter turnout in 15 years.

That said, I could see this happenning in multi-seat constituencies in small populations; the need to present a minimum number of candidates even for marginal parties makes for some of the smaller ones including «fillers» (people who agree to be in the list so the list can be approved but who are not voters / supporters of the party)

Private figures seen in Number 10 repeatedly suggest he needs more than six out of ten young voters to turn out on the day.

The budget office also pointed to the benefits the revenue would have on property tax bills, along with school and local government aid — something of a long - form version (with numbers) of the referendum language voters will see in November.

Marginals without a large student population have seen only modest rises in registered voters, although these numbers could have an impact in tight races in what has become one of the most unpredictable elections in history.

You only have to see the number of former Tory voters defecting to Ukip to see that racism and xenophobia can find supporters in all classes.

Of the 100 seats for which final voter registration numbers have been collated, 82 have seen a rise in registered voters since the 2015 election - but more than half the increase is in just 20 seats where numbers have risen by at least three per cent.

Whereas it's been fairly stable in England and Wales, there's not a single Scottish constituency that's seen a drop in voter numbers.

The high number of undecided voters, as seen in other polls, and a lackluster debate of the Democratic candidates last month left some of Murphy's old supporters who backed his 2016 U.S. Senate campaign to charter the poll in the hopes of persuading him to run.

The administration in Dublin sees this as a sign that younger voters will turn out in higher numbers than in previous referendums to back the yes side.

In the latest edition of the Ashcroft In America podcast I interview Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe; pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson tells us what the numbers say about the election result; historian Jon Darman considers whether we could be in for a Hillary landslide; and Hispanic voters in Miami and military families in Tampa tell us how they see the presidential and Senate races in the ultimate swing state.

It remains to be seen how much the GOP is willing to embrace Ball, who is viewed favorably and unfavorably by equal numbers of voters.

(CNN)-- Illinois voters head to the polls Tuesday in primary balloting for virtually all statewide offices, including Republican races to see who will face off against the state's Democratic governor, who's considered vulnerable, and against Sen. Dick Durbin, the number two Democrat in the U.S. Senate.

Though Henry is seen as having done a solid job in office, he was elected with just 43 percent of the vote in 2002 — thanks to a decidedly lackluster campaign by former representative Steve Largent (R) and a third - party candidate who attracted a number of GOP - leaning voters.

In April, 55 percent of men saw the governor favorably, but the most recent poll showed that number has dropped to 49 percent, while 46 percent of male voters now see him negatively.

Hartsman says Montgomery county typically sees 10,000 provisional ballots cast, but he points to record high numbers of voters.

This new Marist poll continues a trend seen in other recent surveys of New York voters that indicate Paterson's numbers are plummeting.

«As the public gets more turned off you can see it in the voter turnout numbers, interest groups wield more clout, which further alienates the voting public.»

The effectiveness of this approach is perhaps apparent in the growing number of voters who say they see her as untrustworthy.

But what surprised researchers was the difference those rankings made: Biased search results increased the number of undecided voters choosing the favored candidate by 48 % compared with a control group that saw an equal mix of both candidates throughout the list.

We don't know how the Academy ranking is going to go but there is the possibility that a large number of voters will block vote for women to help women, to show the world that they care about women in the industry, to make up for Hillary's loss; for all of those reasons it's possible we could see wins, like we saw at the DGA in the television categories.

But then either reality struck or I lost my nerve, or both, because obviously any number of voters and critics in any number of precursors weren't as persuaded as I. (The fact that Academy voters have to see all the nominees might make a difference, but I doubt «Water» went entirely unseen by the precursor voters either.)

But according to a new report, a number of Academy voters are dismissing the film without having actually seen it.

Juicy Excerpt: Silver's take was rooted in two realities: (1) three - point polling errors are common; (2) there was an unusually high number of undecided voters going into the election and that increases the chances for seeing a polling mis - prediction.

They realize that most of their constituents love pets to0 — as a couple have commented at the large number of pet owners they see when they are out on the campaign trail, knocking on doors, visiting voters.

Energy as the driver of a number of key public policy issues, and energy as a bipartisan antidote to Washington's dysfunctions — both are seen in the results of an election - night survey of actual U.S. voters, results that should guide the next administration and the new Congress.

That suggests we could reasonably trim the reach number by up to 80 %, but let's be a little more generous and assume that half the people that see the #LSBencher tweets are eligible voters.