Sentences with phrase «swing voters in those constituencies»
However, it will be won or lost in the 117 marginal seats we need to win in order to gain an overall majority; and it will be won or lost on the decisions of swing voters in those constituencies.
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Not only does the electoral system work against us, making the whole election contingent on a handful of swing voters in marginal constituencies, but the rightwing media get to call all the shots.
According to our analysis, the Crosscheck list disproportionately threatens solid Democratic constituencies: young, black, Hispanic and Asian - American voters — with some of the biggest possible purges underway in Ohio and North Carolina, two crucial swing states with tight Senate races.
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.
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Results, they say, increasingly hinge on the preferences of a small number of voters in a handful of swing constituencies which is undemocratic.
Rail reform could be the key to winning over swing voters in the marginal commuter constituencies that Labour will need to win to form a majority in 2015.
The Blairite strategy for resolving this problem was both a cynical triangulation towards the priorities of swing voters in marginal constituencies; and a consequent abandonment of any transformative political objectives that potentially challenged the prejudices of that constituency.