Sentences with phrase «swing voters as»

«Just as importantly, the results hardly vary whether voters read the Guardian or the Daily Mail, and are held as strongly by Conservative swing voters as by Labour voters.

Hillary Clinton is consolidating a substantial lead over Trump less than a month before Election Day, picking up support from women and swing voters as the Republican navigates growing allegations of unwanted sexual contact, a new Wall Street Journal / NBC News poll finds.

Not exact matches

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.

During his imagined campaign, Franken painted his opponent as a tool of the financial industry and managed to win the White House despite insulting Iowa voters, making outlandish yet simple campaign promises, indulging his mood swings, and being accused of extramarital affairs.

As both pressure voters and pivotal voters, African Americans can simultaneously deliver a victory for the Democratic nominee in swing states and keep the Democrats» feet to the fire.

While some segments of the KMT pointed to the event as a last - minute external factor that swung many voters in DPP's direction in many competitive races, analysts and DPP supporters argue that the video probably only had marginal impact on the electoral outcome.

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.

The conservative politician who can listen to members of the other political coalition like Reagan did, and who can learn to respond to the arguments of the other side (as opposed to just posturing for the amusement of their own side), won't just win over those who currently think of themselves as swing - voters.

Jewish voters represent just a couple percent of the national electorate, but their numbers are bigger in swing states such as Florida and Pennsylvania.

Ryan was seen as enough of a conviction politician for the party's conservatives, but a sufficiently friendly face so as not to scare swing - voters.

For those fortunate enough to live in a competitive electoral context such as a swing state, the sheer size of the electorate renders the possibility of one voter being the deciding factor statistically infinitesimal.

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

Meanwhile, as the Republican party was courting swing voters with strong anti-abortion sympathies, these voters saw in great value in consolidating their political power into support for one party.

The poll also answers other burning questions of our time, such as which golfer his peers would want on his back in a bar fight (hint: it's not Bubba Watson), who has the «prettiest swing» on tour («Not the Americans, that's for sure,» noted one LPGA voter), whether the PGA Tour should ditch Doral because of Donald Trump's controversial positions (nope), and whether LPGA players believe Michelle Wie will win another major (not so much).

As the electorate becomes increasingly polarized, we need to do something to allow at least some moderate swing voters in to vote on legislation.

For starters a swing state isn't necessarily any indication as to how moderate vs extreme the voters are.

The atmosphere is charged in Kogi State at the moment as the voters are in high spirit for the poll exercise to go into full swing.

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.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

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

In addition, the party is counting on Mr. Trump's unpopularity to drive swing voters to polls in 2018, when Mr. Cuomo will also be campaigning as he runs for re-election.

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is set to appear on ballots in at least 39 states, and party activists are working in places such as swing state Ohio to get his name before voters this fall.

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.

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.

Swing voters were much more likely than Labour supporters to see the deficit as a serious problem that must be dealt with urgently, and that the Coalition's proposed cuts were unavoidable.

Labour supporters see swing voters, whom they must win back if they are going to return to government, as ignorant, credulous and selfish.

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

The focus on Israel is interesting, as the district is more heavily Asian - American than anything else, but foreign policy - minded Jewish voters are considered an electorally significant swing constituency and the race is likely to see more plenty more events held in front of Jewish congregations like today.

They lost Walsall North and North East Derbyshire on big swings, as local Ukip voters flocked to the Tories.

I personally am more frightened by the prospect of a continued Repub majority in Congress as they lurch further and further to the extreme right than I am by the excesses of the Dems, who can always be held in check by the combination of a robust Repub minority, independent swing voters and people who are simply fed up with the size and inefficiency of our government on all levels.»

He believes he is on the edge of a generation who viewed voting as the «done thing», and considers himself politically neutral — a swing voter — unaffiliated to any party.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

But by leaping in to defend public workers, the president risks alienating swing voters in those states and nationwide who are sympathetic to GOP governors perceived as taking on special interests to cut spending.

The swing district, redrawn as a result of a redistricting process that took effect with last year's election, is almost evenly split between Republicans, Democrats and independents, with Democrats having a slight voter - registration edge.

In New York's gubernatorial elections the swing voters are almost always moderate white Catholic women living in the suburbs, upstate as well as downstate.

It comes as Labour takes the lead in the independence debate following research suggesting the swing toward the «Yes» camp comes mainly from working class Labour voters.

Voters head to the polls in New York's 20th district today to choose a replacement for appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D), a close race in a swing seat that has seen considerable spending by both national parties and will almost certainly be cast as an early referendum on President Obama's agenda.

Compared to Trump, Clinton has pulled far ahead with female voters (58 % to his 35 %) as well as white Catholics (51 % to 45 %), a swing voting demographic.

A strategy only of triangulating to win over swing Tory voters may close that gap, but only at the likely expense of further moving Labour away from the millions who are disenchanted by politics as usual.

The reform was, as Clegg is suddenly keen to point out, never the most pressing thing on the mind of the swing voter in Wolverhampton.

«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.

Voters in the key swing state of Iowa start casting early ballots today as polls show Obama ahead there.

Enough Rockland County voters voted NO on Vanderhoef to keep him as County Exec and swing the election to Carlucci.

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

On Newsnight in the days following the election we saw nine swing voters all pick him as the man to reconnect Labour with the British people.

I do nt think it's former labour voters that make up the missing votes, as most gave died, but the ones who stopped voting labour went to ukip, and they're not going to fine back, if labour swing to the left.

New York has millions of Democratic voters who want to see institutional change, and he's positioned himself as a centrist for so long he has to swing left now.»

«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.»

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 waAs 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 waas a springboard for a presidential bid, which Cox said would rub voters the wrong way.

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