Sentences with phrase «swing voter said»

As one swing voter said, «they're frightening — if they came into power they would just spend».

Three quarters of swing voters say Labour deserved to lose the election.

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.

Swing voters say an apology from Labour for its mistakes in government would make them more likely to consider returning to the party.

69 per cent say the new leader should defend the record of the previous government, especially on the economy; swing voters say this would make them less likely to consider supporting Labour.

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And yet, many journalists ignored obvious evidence that Comey's letter had swung voters against Clinton, he says.

The agencies said in a 2017 report that Russia engaged in a targeted effort to influence US voters through propaganda and other means, in order to swing the presidential election in Trump's favor.

Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPoll: Republican support for Kanye West grew after rapper expressed support for Trump Giuliani calls on Sessions and Rosenstein to shut down Mueller investigation Fox News» Ingraham calls out Giuliani for contradicting Trump on Stormy Daniels» payments: «That's a problem» MORE says only voter fraud can prevent him from winning the swing state of Pennsylvania this November.

Simcha Felder says he will stick with New York Republicans, even as voters went to the polls in special elections that could make him the swing vote.

And the brouhaha shifts the national discussion to divisive social issues that could repel swing voters rather than economic ones that could attract them in a climate of high unemployment and stumbling recovery, the GOP officials said.

Ronald... you are not doing any favors for «Romney / Ryan 2012» by saying something ignorant and then stating your support for them In fact, I think you are motivating the swing voters more than anyone else — no educated person would honestly say they agree with your statements or opinions.

In an interview with SiriusXM set to air this weekend, the retiring congressman said he will focus on mobilizing voters in swing states, CNN reported.

Lots of stuff about the centre ground of politics and the «squeezed middle», which says to me he's going for the same few thousand swing voters that Blair and New Labour did, and forget about the rest of us.

«Democrats can use [expanded background checks] to talk to swing voters in a very targeted way, to suburban mothers, and when you are targeting like that you've really got options,» one national Democratic strategist said.

But they added targeted communication on the issue with white suburban swing voters, who strategists say support measures such as expanded background checks, could help drive turnout with that segment of the electorate.

While the inquiry could not rule out a modest late swing towards the Conservatives, initial claims that the polling errors were due to «shy Tories» (respondents who deliberately misreported their intentions) or «lazy Labour» (Labour voters who said they'd vote but ultimately didn't) did not stand up to scrutiny.

Barring a substantial shift in the last few days of campaigning — which seems unlikely given that 91 per cent of Labour voters say they probably will not change their minds — we can expect a swing from the Liberal Democrats to Labour of around 8 per cent since the general election.

Rep. Danny Rovero, a key swing voter in the House Democratic caucus who voted for the Republican - written budget last month, said the nature of the compromise was choosing among a series of difficult and unpalatable choices.

Six in ten swing voters, and a third of those who currently say they will vote Labour, worry that Labour have not learned the right lessons from their time in government and that they might spend and borrow more than the country can afford.

But there is a view that says that after the European and local elections are over, there could be a swing back to the Conservatives of UKIP voters.

Tkaczyk spokesman James Plastiras said the campaign «is just swinging into high gear, and with every debate that's held, voters learn more about George Amedore's extremist, anti-choice, anti-women, anti-environmental and anti-consumer positions and voting record.»

«Marijuana and casinos are not long - term, strategic fixes to our budget,» said Hampton, a swing voter who votes with his caucus on most bills.

The right track - wrong track question has taken something of a swing: Last month voters by a margin of 49 percent to 41 percent said the state was heading in the wrong direction — making for a 15 - point improvement in how they are viewing the direction of the state.

Many of the other undecided voters have also said Trump didn't impress them to swing in his favour swelling support for Mrs Clinton.

Results, they say, increasingly hinge on the preferences of a small number of voters in a handful of swing constituencies which is undemocratic.

In the latest edition of the Ashcroft In America podcast I interview Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe; pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson tells us what the numbers say about the election result; historian Jon Darman considers whether we could be in for a Hillary landslide; and Hispanic voters in Miami and military families in Tampa tell us how they see the presidential and Senate races in the ultimate swing state.

«What we are seeing here is that as voters begin to pay more attention to this race, the momentum is swinging our way and the race is breaking towards the candidate most capable of cleaning up Albany, holding Wall Street accountable, and protecting New York families,» Rice campaign manager Jeffrey Stein said in a statement.

Rep. Danny Rovero, a conservative Democrat and swing voter in the House of Representatives, said criminals would still create ghost guns.

Rep. Danny Rovero, a key swing voter in the House Democratic caucus who voted for the Republican - written budget last month, said, «It's a very good compromise.

Jeremy Corbyn spent Friday campaigning in the key swing seat of Cardiff North, where he said voters should draw inspiration from the party's Welsh history.

The reason the party did not win a majority, he said, was because not enough people trusted the party with their vote and that more reassurance needed to be given to swing voters so that they could vote Conservative with confidence and without fear.

As opposed to 2014, Cox sees a clear path for a Republican victory this year — with the governor's mounting scandals, his second - term swing to the left that has created resentment upstate, and his use of the race as a springboard for a presidential bid, which Cox said would rub voters the wrong way.

Suppose Britain's swing voters turn decisively against the Government's strategy and conclude that the two Eds were right all along to say the Government is cutting too far, too fast.

Suburban voters typically constitute the swing vote in statewide elections, experts say.

The GOP nominee, who had repeatedly said his call to take a «baseball bat to Albany» was «a metaphor,» produced an orange - red bat and took pretend swings, warning Cuomo to listen to the voters and said, «Make no mistake, you have not heard the last of Carl Paladino.»

Kelly Ward, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said swing voters tended not to distinguish between lawmakers who vocally endorsed Mr. Trump and those who have stayed silent, neither supporting nor actively opposing his candidacy.

Liesl Hickey, a Republican strategist involved in several House races in swing states, said she was dismayed by a sudden exodus of independent voters in more diverse parts of the country.

Tony, I can take what you're saying and applying it to the idea, that Labour had the working class who'd bought their council Home in the early 80's, by the late 80's were back voting labour as unlike in 1983 we weren't standing on manifesto to buy them back and then the swing voters we needed but couldn't quite get in 1992 were the Aspiring lower middle class, skilled blue collar voters

Today he publishes a psephological analysis which he says supports his belief that those who deserted the party for the Tories at the last election were not high - earning voters but the less well - off; Labour's erstwhile «core» voters have now become «swing» voters.

The figures quoted in the Independent are those for «swing voters» (defined in the normal way, as those people who say there is a fair chance they will change their mind before the next election).

«We're spending a lot of time trying to do voter - to - voter contact in the swing states, trying to make sure they are aware of the facts, know the difference between the candidates and know how important their vote is,» Steyer said.

At the most basic level, mirror neurons — in the form of empathy with Palin — may have temporarily dazzled swing female voters, says neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, author of the 2006 book The Female Brain, which explores hormonal and other influences on the brains of women and girls.

Although polls show that 67 % of voters in swing states said education was «extremely important» to them, President Obama and Mr. Romney haven't talked much about education.

He said that Aggregate IQ, which he labelled a «shell company» of Cambridge Analytica, had been involved in sending violent and intimidating videos to voters in Nigeria in an attempt to swing an election.

Describing its work in a Nigerian election, SCL Global said it had advised that «rather than trying to motivate swing voters to vote for our clients, a more effective strategy might be to persuade opposition voters not to vote at all».

In one document, SCL said that encouraging people «not to vote» might be more effective than trying to motivate swing voters.