Sentences with phrase «state voters did»

According to an October Siena College poll, nearly half of state voters didn't know or had no opinion of Schneiderman.

63 % of registered New York State voters do not want Paterson to run for governor.

Not exact matches

So in each state, there were more than enough Stein voters to swing the result, just like Ralph Nader did in Florida and New Hampshire in 2000.»

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

Black voters in red states should vote as they usually do for candidates, down the ballot — and leave their choice for President blank.

ANALYSIS: The recent state budget did little to convince voters the Barnett government is on the right track ahead of the 2017 election.

Not only do we think black voters should abstain from voting for the Democratic presidential nominee in red states, we also think black voters should continue their role as pivotal voters in battleground states.

As they enthusiastically did in 2008 and 2012, black voters should turn out in massive numbers this November in states where their votes can determine the margin of victory for the Democratic nominee — Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.

Most voters don't expect to receive protection from the military for free, or demand that others to pay for the Department of Education, Medicare transfers to the states, and all other federally - funded programs.

The information did not include highly sensitive information like Social Security numbers, and much of it was publicly available voter - registration data provided by state government officials, a company spokesman told Business Insider on Tuesday.

The changed legal positions already advanced by Sessions means minority voters looking to prove that the state's strict voter ID law is intentionally discriminatory will probably have to do without the federal government's backing, as will transgender students who argue that the law allows them to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity.

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

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.

The vote will come early because the state constitution says that if legislators want to override a veto, they have to do it immediately after they return to session, but it will also mark a quick opportunity for Democrats to highlight the Republican governor's opposition to a policy they're betting voters will favor.

Evrything this man has done has damaged our national security and compromised our freedoms, from suing states who want to initiate simple voter safeguards to working to help the public «schools» usurp the role of child - rearing from parents.

«While many evangelical voters say they «strongly» support Trump over Clinton, this does not necessarily mean Trump is their ideal choice for president or that they are convinced he shares their religious convictions,» Pew stated.

Less than half the state's eligible voters bother to register, but Mormons almost always do, which gives them about a quarter of the likely turnout.»

Ronald... you are not doing any favors for «Romney / Ryan 2012» by saying something ignorant and then stating your support for them In fact, I think you are motivating the swing voters more than anyone else — no educated person would honestly say they agree with your statements or opinions.

One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didn't want to make a strong play for working - class white voters in swing states.

With a few lines of coded racism and a string of angry tweets, the president of the United States got the bulk of the 37 percent or so of voters who still support him to do just that — to walk away from the NFL.

Plus, in the case of this year, human voters and some computers determined that Alabama was a better, more deserving team than Oklahoma State, but Oklahoma State gets the nod simply because they didn't have to play LSU in the regular season and Alabama did.

Golden State added the biggest prize in free agency, Kevin Durant, and while that will likely cause Curry's numbers to fall, oddsmakers don't think voters will glance over the» 15 - ’16 MVP when selecting their All - NBA guards.

State GOP and Tea Party leaders have done so, but there is a nagging concern on the part of some that Paladino might well implode, leaving Republican and Conservative voters with no options.

Here's a quick example of how NOT to do GOTV — a Republican political «operative» (a word that always amuses me) has been flooding swing - state voters» phones with spam texts detailing how horrible Barack Obama is (he's in favor of the «gay agenda,» or so I've heard).

incorrectly blacklisted by overly fuzzy implementations of the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, (supposedly a fraud preventative database cleaner for purging or flagging duplicate entries from state voter rolls), which fail to require mandatory Social Security Number and birth - date comparisons given two voters named John Doe,

Many states in the US do this with voter referendums.

At least 62 percent of voters from every region of the state and every party agree that Spitzer should leave his political aspirations on the shelf next year and refrain from seeking statewide office, although he does continue to have a reservoir of support (more than 40 percent) among black and Latino voters.

This isn't the first time Turner has suggested he's more electable than his challengers — attorney Wendy Long, who has never before held elected office; and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who has been stumping around the state for almost a year, but has failed to generate much excitement, either among the GOP rank - and - file (although they did put him on the ballot at the convention in Rochester earlier this month) or voters.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

Two of her fellow statewide elected officials, AG Eric Schneiderman and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, have some work to do in the name recognition department, 63 percent and 58 percent of voters, respectively, say they don't know enough about them to form an opinion.

Yet, voters are doing what politicians have failed to do and states are taking the lead.

Samuels also made the «that which does not kill us» argument, insisting (much like state GOP Chairman Ed Cox has in connection with his party's gubernatorial fight), saying Duffy will be stronger, better known to voters and more fully vetted if he wins a primary fight.

Felder, an observant Jew whose district includes many Orthodox Jewish voters, said his constituents «don't agree» with a lot of what two of the state's top Democrats — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio — have been saying in the wake of Donald Trump's election, pledging to fight on behalf of liberal values and maintain a sort of safe haven for the left in New York.

Many Greek voters, who supported SYRIZA and the Golden Dawn, stated that they do not believe these parties will solve their problems.

If either of them were to stay in power for 16 or 20 years (and Obama was popular enough that he might have done so) large numbers of the opposition would find themselves shut out from power and subject to punitive laws and regulations (consider the IRS targeting of conservative groups under Obama or recent Trump's voter fraud investigations of states that opposed him).

Several companies will take a database of voter names and physical addresses (which candidates can get from the state parties) and do an «email append» to add email addresses for as many people on the list as possible.

As the former leader of the New York State Assembly is currently on trial for his life, and a second former State leader is expected to begin his corruption trial next week, I probably don't need to tell you that frustration with the current state of affairs could encourage moderate and independent voters to embrace a party promising — well, reState Assembly is currently on trial for his life, and a second former State leader is expected to begin his corruption trial next week, I probably don't need to tell you that frustration with the current state of affairs could encourage moderate and independent voters to embrace a party promising — well, reState leader is expected to begin his corruption trial next week, I probably don't need to tell you that frustration with the current state of affairs could encourage moderate and independent voters to embrace a party promising — well, restate of affairs could encourage moderate and independent voters to embrace a party promising — well, reform.

Only by positioning itself as the party of efficiency, spending cuts where necessary and value for money can Labour turn on the Tories and ask voters: now that we have slimmed down the state, do you want the Tories to cut the basics, too?

Forty - three percent of voters surveyed by Siena trust their local government most or all of the time to «do what's right,» as opposed to a 28 percent level of trust for state or federal governments.

The MTGP Coordinator Danielle Breck stated that «The Montana Green Party has repeatedly shown, through our various petitioning efforts, that we do, in fact, have the «modicum of voter support» the law requires and that our candidates are not «frivolous,» but rather provide an important alternative to pre-selected, unresponsive, corporate controlled candidates offered by the two - party oligarchy.

New Yorkers looking to register to vote, or to change their enrollment information, can do so easily by using the state's online voter registration service on the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles» webstate's online voter registration service on the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles» webState Department of Motor Vehicles» website.

In all four states, the marriage equality effort did better in urban areas and were less popular among rural voters.

That doesn't bode well for the crowded field of candidates who have been attempting to woo voters in the country's two earliest voting states for months now.

State Democratic lawmakers are reminding voters that they don't need photo identification to vote on today.

Some cautioned, however, that the places a gun control debate would not help Democratic Senate chances are places like Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Arizona — heavily Republican states where voters oppose measures to gun access or anything to do with Obama, for that matter.

A special local government Siena Research Institute poll finds a majority of voters say local governments beat the state on everything from understanding citizens» needs to «getting things done.»

In - person voting doesn't begin until Oct. 24, so state Democrats are now strongly urging voters to vote by mail — including in a letter from President Barack Obama paid for by the party.

Mr. DiNapoli probably doesn't want to answer questions like that, but it his obligation to the voters of this state to make himself available to them.»

I saw this question about what states that don't use voter ID do to ensure non-citizens don't vote, and the answer seems to be little, if anything.

And let's not forget the advice the Times also gave: «For state races, the best advice for New York voters is to vote against anybody who has done time in Albany.»