Sentences with phrase «swing vote when»

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.

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Kennedy will once again be the swing vote, and it's uncertain how he'll decide when he hears the case in court; in the past, he has supported limits on abortion.

When you consider how a few thousands votes in a handful of swing states determined the election, this is no small thing.

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

That those viewers then swung in large numbers behind the Labour leader suggests the programme may have had an impact on the final result - particularly when just a few hundred votes in swing seats shifted June's outcome.

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

Historically, Labour has never been voted into No 10 when economic growth has been below two per cent and some believe swing voters instinctively switch to Labour when they think the economy is performing well.

In Both the 92 and 2010 elections, there were bigger swings towards us from the middle class than the working class, for different reasons, maybe those who came to us in 92 were Ex SDP, voting for us after it's collapse, and the working class, were sticking too the Tories in Essex, as they hadn't lost so much under the recession, and weren't losing their jobs in the city, the way the middle class were, and read the Suns twaddle about labour saying they'd put the basic rate of tax, when we said we weren't going too.

Corby was created in 1983 and since then the only election in which the Scottish vote may have (probably did) swing the result was in 2005 when Labour had a majority of 1,517..

Imagine what the swing to the Tories might be when they can genuinely say on the doorstep: «Vote Labour today and get Corbyn as Prime Minister tomorrow».

When $ 16 million in discretionary education funds were doled out this week, the Brooklyn state senator proved once again that he's a master at maximizing his position as the swing vote in the divided legislative body.

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In the New York Times, Adam Liptak says it was a good year for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who emerged as a canny strategist, thanks in part to the swing vote of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy swinging to the right when it mattered.

But in an opinion written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who once again proved to be the decisive swing vote, the court ruled that the New Haven fire department violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it threw out the results of a promotional exam in which white candidates outperformed minority candidates.