Sentences with phrase «swing the vote if»

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«If you look at key swing states — Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa — those are all states where you had overwhelming majorities vote to protect marriage, and I think that we are going to focus on making very clear that this is a key distinction...

I don't think Catholics vote as a block, but if they did, it most likely would swing away from, not toward, the neanderthals.

Thus, it may be beneficial to «Dance with the Devil» if your district didn't vote for your party in the last election, or they are showing signs of a swing.

I suspect that things may look a little different if you look at just the percentage fall for the main government party (and, actually, I'm about to check that) and the massive swing will have been exaggerated by the Tories not bothering in a part of the world where they've been voting tactically for over a century, but it's not entirely meaningless.

Two thirds of swing voters say Labour will have to change quite fundamentally before they will consider voting for it again, even if they do not like what the coalition is doing.

As John Curtice has wisely pointed out, if, as some polls suggest, the swing to Labour is greater than the national average in the Remain voting capital, then it must be lower than average in Leave voting provincial England.

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).

And while Councilman Edward Ambrosino, who has also pledged to work with Gillen, has often been a swing vote, he is facing federal tax - evasion charges and may not be able to keep his seat if he is convicted or takes a plea deal.

«On a uniform swing across the country, the Tories would get 278 MPs if they scoop 37 per cent of the vote.

If Democrats succeed in forcing a vote on Skelos» removal next week, the support of Sampson might swing the result.

Winning swing votes will be in vain if Labour has not also got its working - class vote out and reconnected with disillusioned liberal opinion, too.

During the hearing, the House Intelligence Chairman asked Mike Rogers if votes tallies in key swing states were changed and Rogers confirmed that there's no evidence that any votes have been compromised in the election.

I might have taken a swing at it if I didn't observe that fact - based but politically polarizing answers on this SE get voted on by political alignment more than quality.

House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes listed several key swing states — Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, North Carolina and Ohio — and asked Rogers if there was any evidence that vote tallies were changed.

If you REALLY care about them vote for an electable candidate or at least tell us why you think Corbyn is electable in the middle class constituencies that swing elections.

with trump being so insane and this a swing district he probably assumed that he would lose anyway even if he didn't vote for this so he's resigned himself to being a one - termer, and the post-term options for a loyal one - termer are much more numerous than for one who went against the family.

There is a danger for Labour of not winning so many seats as uniform swing would suggest if their vote gains are disproportionately concentrated in areas where the Liberal Democrats did relatively well in 2010.

If, instead of 52 (with some fringe) and 48 locked against, it was 52-4-44 with the 4 operating as swing - votes, then those 4 might wield a lot of power.

I do nt think it's former labour voters that make up the missing votes, as most gave died, but the ones who stopped voting labour went to ukip, and they're not going to fine back, if labour swing to the left.

The Chancellor had unveiled plans to hike and taxes and make swinging public spending cuts to fill a # 30billion «black hole» he said would open up if we voted for Brexit.

Common sense alone tells us that marginality should have some effect upon the size of the swing — if there was a 10 % swing at the election, it is unlikely that the Conservatives would actually pick up an extra 10 % of the vote in places like inner - city Glasgow and the Welsh valleys, while there are some home counties constituencies where Labour barely has 10 % to lose.

If the Falkirk inquiry is re-opened, Unite — who are currently poised to vote for the reforms — are likely to swing into the opposition camp.

Then there's to consider what might happen if Scotland votes «Yes»; if that should happen I think there will be swings to them everywhere, both further ones at Holyrood, and ones at the Westminster elections that would bring them into play in places like Falkirk for example.

Arguments rumble on about what privacy rules were broken, if any, and whether the company's mass profiling of Facebook users swung the 2016 US Presidential Election and the UK's Brexit vote.

If the controversy around Franco had hit earlier, I think a good number of Academy voters would have swung in favor of the safer vote (Hanks).

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Alito will, if confirmed, replace Sandra Day O'Connor, and her swing - vote role was especially influential in the cases about the religion clauses.

And yet, in Ice, a one - time (though fickle) Apprendi supporter, Justice Ginsburg, wrote a broad opinion for the Court limiting Apprendi's reach and suggesting that she (as well as Justice Alito, who was another key swing vote in Ice) may be increasingly concerning about what could happen if Apprendi rights were extended into new sentencing settings.