Sentences with phrase «swing voters»

They appreciated that the battle of political ideas at election time was focused exclusively on a minority of swing voters in marginal seats.

The 12 - page memo [pdf] was based on a dozen focus groups conducted with swing voters in six states.

They are more like swing voters who have to be brought along with clear messages — preferably using images as well as words.

Because for swing voters, it's the issues that matter, not party affiliation.

It has also been revealed that using the sophisticated data tools, the firm targeted swing voters with just the right messages.

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

The writers presented the results of their brain scans on swing voters.

The latter seeing the need for concessions on some issues in order to win over swing voters and get into power.

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.

He seemed to have a sense that liberals needed to seem moderate if they were going to win swing voters.

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.

Most swing voters have never heard a conservative make an extended argument for any kind of market - oriented health care reform.

The general ideological proximity of progressive parties doesn't mean they are seen as perfect substitutes by swing voters.

Seats would be won by convincing voters across the constituency, not just targeting action at a few swing voters.

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.

That means that any candidate that wins their support must seem to have a plausible chance to win over enough swing voters to win the presidential election.

While swing voters wanted Labour to acknowledge its mistakes, most in the movement wanted to see the new leader defend the party's record.

The priority should be to target swing voters rather than planning alliances with other parties.

A number of issues and factors affected the outcome of that election, but the very closeness of the race made swing voters, for whom education is a top priority, particularly crucial.

Recent polling suggests that showing stronger commitment to a green economy would be popular with the majority of voters, including all - important swing voters.

We can directly model, from the ground level up, how many swing voters there are in each state and how they might respond to changes in the electoral environment.

On the whole, this is also why swing voters decide to go left.

It will target swing voters aged 35 and older, local grassroots activists and those who have engaged with the topic of «health care» on social media.

But the extraordinary number of swing voters suggests the parties have everything to fight for over the next seven days.

Actually, it costs less, and there are more swing voters in the smaller markets than in urban areas.

In these cases, the Democratic base, the Republican base and the number of swing voters are all close to the national average.

The working - class swing voters have to be won over.

The tour itself will target swing voters in the South Asian - Canadian community as a way to put political pressure on Canadian leaders to take legislative action to deal with climate change.

The key swing voter in this election will be a Labour - supporting pensioner in Glasgow [1].

By the time he embarked on his star - crossed 1994 re-election campaign, he'd become a target of national conservatives - and of suburban swing voters in New York, who'd grown convinced that he was too eager to spend their money and too hesitant to punish criminals.

They need to be more outward looking and make the positive case that their policies (which should include a middle - class agenda) will appeal to general election swing voters as well as the conservative base.

While three quarters of swing voters thought Labour must accept a large part of the blame for the economic situation, most in the Labour movement disagreed.

Miliband's positive offer — on zero - hours contracts, energy prices, non-doms, and the bedroom tax — was worthy but narrowly economistic, and allowed the party to be backed into exactly the trap that Gregg McClymont and Ben Jackson warned about in 2011: defending a minority of losers from Conservative government without persuading swing voters that it offered a credible alternative.

«The UK Independence party is to broaden its electoral message beyond its usual campaigns against Europe and immigration with a new tax strategy aimed squarely at swing voters in middle Britain.

The danger for Mr. Romney is that if these charges go unrefuted, they could discourage swing voters from going for him this fall when they decide whom to support.

Another path is to try to become an American version of the U.K. Independence Party and seek to combine those who oppose the current version of «comprehensive immigration reform» with white swing voters who are alienated from both parties.

However, among those Rhode Island voters who aren't swing voters, many more are Democrats than Republicans.

Westminster only cares about swing voters in swing seats - so millions are forgotten.

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».

want to make these potential swing voters happy while preserving the integrity of their bill.

Of those Republican appointees, four were considered swing voters at some level (John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Anthony Kennedy).

I fall in the latter camp,» said State Senator Diane Savino, a Democrat who placed most of the blame for the loss on swing voters siding with Mr. Grimm.

It will be some comfort to the Conservatives that few swing voters see Ed Miliband and Labour as a credible alternative.

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While the money is modest compared with that donated by fossil fuel interests, the support provides GOP candidates with added credibility on clean energy, an issue polling shows swing voters care about.

Considering Trump has convinced voters that he's qualified for the position based on his experience as a businessman, an endorsement from Bloomberg, a successful billionaire businessman, could help Clinton win over some voters, especially swing voters and moderate Republicans wary of a Trump presidency.

The contract included identifying swing voters for each of the parties and measuring their level of electoral apathy, among other things.

Indeed, the Trump transition team released a statement in December that appeared to cast doubt on the CIA's findings that Russia had meddled in the election with the specific purpose of damaging Clinton's candidacy and swinging voters towards Trump.

We can not win general elections with a leader who is unable and unwilling to learn how to communicate with, listen to and persuade people with whom he doesn't already agree — we need to convince swing voters who voted Tory last year in southern seats to vote Labour next time, and we need Labour voters in Wales and the North to continue to vote Labour.