In 2008, the same
swing voter groups that played such a decisive role eight years before could again provide the margin of victory for the winning presidential candidate.
Still, private surveys showed that education was an important issue for many
swing voter groups then and has remained remarkably steady over the past seven years.
Not exact matches
With a polarized electorate, both parties believe they benefit more by turning out core supporters than from courting a shrinking
group of
swing voters.
With optimized charts and averages, PollTracker 2012 follows important
swing states, provides key
voter group information (independents, gender breakdown,
voter subgroups) and offers specific detailed candidate data.
Demographically, [Romney's] image among independent
voters, the most critical
swing group, is more negative now than it was when the primary battle began.
When BritainThinks asked
swing voters in Watford their expectations for 2018 in focus
groups earlier this year, they painted an almost universally gloomy picture of uncertainty, anxiety and division — in fact, it feels like the only thing we have to be proud of as a nation is the Royal Family.
In my experience in focus
groups with lower middle class and affluent working class
swing voters, people are obsessed about two things: the NHS; and welfare.
We focus on advanced research techniques as well as traditional on - line surveys and focus
groups to better understand loyal base
voters as well as
swing, independent and persuadable Democrats and Republicans.
Until
groups can boost the salience of gun control to
swing and dormant
voters, and communicate this salience to politicians, little will change.
Swing voters: Six focus
groups of people who voted Labour at the 2005 election but for a different party in 2010 were conducted between 16 and 24 August 2010 in London, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham.
A small
swing towards Conservatives amongst this
group of
voters would see the party reclaim the seat.
The
group is not explicitly advocating tactical voting but will aim to win
swing voters away from the Conservatives.
The mainstream green
groups, these lefties argue, spent way too much time compromising with fossil - fuel interests in order to craft a byzantine cap - and - trade proposal that could placate enough
swing voters in Congress.
I am not a member of any political
group, and I am a
swinging voter, having voted for both major parties depending on policy.
Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor who bankrolled Cambridge Analytica — the data consulting firm at the center of Facebook's latest privacy scandal — also was the largest donor to a
group that targeted
swing - state
voters with anti-Muslim ads during the 2016 U.S. elections.