Sentences with phrase «smaller voter base»

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Absent a major terrorist attack in the United States, or a spate of smaller domestic attacks, or escalating weekly American military casualties, my suspicion is that in the 2016 election, voters will weigh foreign policy based on their feelings about the economy.

As the electorate becomes more and more fractured, small extremist parties might not actually grow in size (the voter base for extreme views remains the same), but the need to get that last one or two votes to build a majority coalition becomes greater and greater, making the negotiating position of extreme parties much greater, and allowing them to force their platforms onto the coalition in exchange for their vote.

The NBC / Wall Street Journal poll — which gives Obama and Vice President Joe Biden a small lead over Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan — shows Obama has a massive lead over his Republican rival in the key political base of African - American voters, NBCNews.com reported.

Mondello controls a small army of party faithful that are critical to collecting tens of thousands of petition signatures in the dead of summer, along with a loyal voter base in the Town of Hempstead that can dictate control of the county at large.

Of course, it's worth noting that NYFCC is made up of a small group of New York — based film critics; a larger awards body like the Oscars will be pulling from a much bigger pool of voters working within the film industry.

Polls showed that his most unpopular issue was education, where only 22 - 26 % of voters approved his harsh and punitive reform policies of closing public schools, grading schools, rating teachers based on student test scores, opening hundreds of small schools, and favoring charter schools with free public space.

Not everyone's impressed, though, and while the percentage of such voters might be small, they're a good base to go by for Samsung as it works on improving the stereo speakers with either the Galaxy Note 9 or the Galaxy S10 next year.