Sentences with phrase «swing electoral vote»

That's partly why my question is about the more realistic issue of whether a state with a small population could swing the electoral vote.

If put in the right light, Democrats and Republicans would love this idea (like the 3 Senate seats for the Dems and a swing electoral vote in the EC for the GOP).

Not exact matches

While Florida remains the only swing state that's still too close to call, Obama bested his Republican challenger Mitt Romney regardless, as he raked in at least 303 electoral votes during yesterday's election.

That is exactly the issue at hand with our democracy today: politics concentrates power to a handful of voters in wealthier swing seats, while throwing 22m votes in the electoral scrapheap.

Every four years, presidential candidates lavish attention (and, more important, campaign promises) on a dozen or so swing states whose electoral votes are up for grabs.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

The old New Labour triangulation strategy was that the so - called «core vote» had nowhere else to go, but relatively affluent swing voters were key to electoral success.

Croydon is a delicately balanced two - party state — our wildly disproportional electoral system «rewarding» 19 % of Lib Dem voters in 2010 with precisely none of the 70 council seats — and a modest vote swing would give Labour control.

Rump squeaked by in the electoral by winning enough swing states (by less then a point) and 46 % of the total vote.

With its worst electoral performance since 1918, the Labour vote fell by over 3,000,000 votes from 1979 and this accounted for both a national swing of almost 4 % towards the Conservatives and their larger parliamentary majority of 144 seats, even though the Conservative Party's total vote fell by almost 700,000.

-- processionary phase of the electoral pendulum swing favours recent incumbent — recessionary phase of the business cycle swing favours statist party — secular trend of Baby Boomer pro-ALP voting bias — divided and dispirited L / NP still awaiting the rising the the Costello souffle

Shell predicts that the plant will employ 600 workers — a powerful message in a swing state where a thirst for job creation is often cited as a key reason that Donald Trump won Pennsylvania's 20 electoral college votes in November.