Sentences with phrase «siphon needed votes»
But Long fears a separate Reform Party candidate could siphon needed votes from someone running jointly on the Republican and Conservative lines.
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Long fears a separate Reform Party candidate could siphon needed votes from a joint Republican - Conservative candidate.
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The governor then filed petitions to create a new «Women's Equality Party,» which many insiders view as an effort to siphon votes from the WFP in order to keep it from receiving the 50,000 votes it needs to maintain its ballot line.
Republicans charge that Davis is siphoning much - needed votes from Corwin.
Some critics have argued that Mr. Cuomo — who reportedly facilitated the arrangement between the GOP and the breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to maintain control of the upper house of the legislature — created the Women's Equality Party as a means to siphon support away from the Working Families Party, in order to deny them the 50,000 votes needed to remain on the ballot.