Sentences with phrase «swing vote»

That's especially true in an election year, when the huge Catholic vote is seen as perhaps the key swing vote in the nation.

The following list contains the potential Republican swing votes on this measure.

Both provided key swing votes for same sex marriage.

The court is currently split with two reliable conservatives, two conservative - leaning swing votes, and four liberals.

It initially targets eight major cities in swing voting districts.

Washington (CNN)- President Barack Obama has opened up a significant lead among Catholic voters, a crucial swing voting bloc, according to a recent Pew poll.

Join us in making phone calls to constituents of swing votes in the NY State Senate.

The computer was particularly effective at predicting the crucial swing votes of Justices O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy.

Other investors previously seen as swing votes, such as State Street Corp., Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and Invesco also voted in favor of the deal on the eve of the shareholders» meeting, the source said.

Research released by youth charity vInspired's Swing The Vote campaign seems to have hit the nail on the head.

A group of Senate Democrats who are considered swing votes on pending climate change and energy legislation sent a letter to President Obama Thursday morning detailing their conditions for supporting any domestic bill or international treaty to address global warming.

It was a majority of black people (upward of 80 %) who were responsible for swinging the vote against the ability of gay men and woman the ability to marry, It is ironic that they want to marry in a church which at one time said that»n egro» men and woman had a soul that was about 1/3 equivalent to whites.

Grisanti, a Republican, provided one of several swing votes for Cuomo on the gay marriage bill.

The governor did late Thursday signal that he'll endorse Republican Senator Stephen Saland of the Hudson Valley, who provided one of several swing votes for Cuomo's gay marriage bill in 2011.

Trump's nomination of Gorsuch may have come with an added incentive to reassure moderate swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy should he decide to retire during the current term.

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Three of the four GOP Senators who provided swing votes are no longer in office.

Nationally this only had a modest impact (3 %), but in a few crucial states, this may have swung the vote more than expected.

Catholics are considered the quintessential swing vote, and no presidential candidate has won the White House without winning Catholics since at least the early 1990s.

It is believed that the data was used to manipulate public opinion and may have allegedly helped swing votes in Trump's favor.

Thus, whilst it might, possibly, result in a short term improvement in poll ratings, it would certainly mean a substantial loss of grass roots and possible swing votes in an election.

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Last week, the Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn state senator Simcha Felder showed he knows how to use his position as the divided legislative body's swing vote when it came to allocating $ 16 million in discretionary education funds.

Death row prisoners are likely to find less success under a Trump - nominated successor, but some observers have pointed to Chief Justice John Roberts as a potential swing vote on capital cases.

Anthony Kennedy, the court's usual swing vote in politically charged issues, joined the four liberal justices to permit the stay.

Two other ads backed Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, and Senator Mark Begich, Democrat of Alaska, who is considered a critical swing vote, in a state where there are many critics of the legislation.

In an election year in which Catholics will constitute one of the nation's biggest swing voting blocs - and in which the bishops are likely to continue slapping the White House - the political heft of a new generation of progressive Catholic groups and the White House's Catholic outreach efforts are about to face a huge political test.

This is a significantly larger percentage than many of the popularly touted swing voting blocs.

«I can recall the days when Coach Bryant could address the NCAA convention on an issue and he could swing the vote if it was going to be close,» says former Alabama player Pell.

New York State Democratic Chair and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown will be one of the all - important swing votes.

Katko is considered a key swing vote because Republicans can afford to lose only about 20 votes and still have the 218 votes needed for passage.

Labour sources privately suggested that tactical voting from Conservative and Liberal Democrat supporters may have helped swing the vote further in their favour in what was acknowledged to be a two horse race.

There is an argument that the discrepancy between polls and outcome is explained by the Fear factor swinging votes only when people were confronted with the reality of the choice before them on a ballot paper but it's not a convincing one.

East Hampton Town Councilman Swings His Vote Grasses, not grapes, will be grown on town - owned farmland at Robert's Lane and Cedar Street in East Hampton, according to a majority vote of the town board on Tuesday.

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.

Sen. Greg Ball, a key GOP swing vote on gay marriage, warned a bill will never pass without significant exemptions for religious institutions.

Democrats will swing their vote behind Crist before they let a Republican win the Senate.

However well intentioned, Labour can't get itself elected by pleading the cause of needy non-voters: so elections depend on ever fewer swing votes in a diminishing number of marginals.

Have the conference speeches really swung the votes of party members across the country, or just the sort of activists who go to conference?

Whelan, Gordon Brown's spin doctor in the 1990s and part of the media campaign behind Labour's 1997 victory, said union power had undoubtedly swung the vote for the younger Miliband brother.

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Barry seems to be single - handedly swinging the vote against the more conservative faction of the city council, led with satirical glee by Michael Gambon and Julia McKenzie.

Swing Vote Kevin Costner portrays common man Bud Johnson, complete with ball cap, beer gut and pickup truck, who suddenly becomes a national figure when it's revealed that his vote could decide the presidential election.

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Swing Vote Rated PG - 13 for language Kevin Costner is just your average lovable loser until he finds himself to be the tie breaking vote in the presidential election.

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