Sentences with phrase «swing votes for»

The governor did endorse Republican Senator Stephen Saland of the Hudson Valley, who provided one of several swing votes for Cuomo's gay marriage bill in 2011.

The governor did late Thursday signal that he'll endorse Republican Senator Stephen Saland of the Hudson Valley, who provided one of several swing votes for Cuomo's gay marriage bill in 2011.

Grisanti, a Republican, provided one of several swing votes for Cuomo on the gay marriage bill.

Both provided key swing votes for same sex marriage.

Whelan, Gordon Brown's spin doctor in the 1990s and part of the media campaign behind Labour's 1997 victory, said union power had undoubtedly swung the vote for the younger Miliband brother.

Not exact matches

«Watch out for Remain - voting areas swinging towards Labour and Leave - voting areas swinging towards the Tories, much as happened last year,» said Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde.

These losses stabilized to single digits for a number of months, but as primary voting season hit full swing in March 2016, share losses grew again.

Reasons have since been offered for the high - profile provincial misses — in the case of Alberta, a last - minute swing in voting intentions from Wildrose to the PCs; in B.C., the failure of those who said they'd vote NDP to show up on election day.

His DIY approach and passion for the project attracted writer - director Stern (Swing Vote, Neverwas) and eventually an A-list cast.

The court's key swing - vote, Anthony Kennedy has a flair for the dramatic.

Sen. Murkowski, considered another swing vote, has also said she opposes the elimination of federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

I wonder how the folks in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Iowa must feel — three swing states that all voted for Trump.

But the critical «enviro» swing vote is still up for grabs.

The country currently has 55.6 million voting age Catholics and in swing states they make up 19 percent of the electorate, according to Georgetown's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.

Catholic News Agency: Former Vatican diplomat predicts Catholic swing toward GOP Jim Nicholson, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, thinks that the Catholic vote remains an important force in modern politics and that more Catholics than in the past will vote for Romney and the Republican Party in the upcoming election.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

The Catholic vote is one of the largest swing blocs in the country, voting for the winning presidential candidates from both parties in recent elections.

It's a good indication of just how important the Catholic vote is thought to be this year, with Catholics accounting for 1 in 4 Americans and considered to be the quintessential swing bloc.

He campaigned for Jack Kennedy among his Denver teammates last summer and figures he swung about four votes.

German newspaper Die Zeit say the country's Football Association arranged for then - Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's administration to supply the arms in order to swing the Saudi vote from Morocco to Germany ahead of the vote in 2000.

Horschel, though, hinted during a tweet - a-thon with Twitter followers on Tuesday that some last - minute lobbying by Day, likely in the form of a sixth W for the 2015 campaign, could sway the swing votes.

Now I won't pause for too long here on the irony of Nigel Farage, of all people, complaining about other politicians using fear and dodgy claims to swing votes.

He will probably do well in Kansas, Alabama, and Mississippi, the next states to vote — all southern, all primed for his folksy style and conservative message — but from late March and onwards, the demography swings in Romney favour as Illinois votes.

(Which, incidentally, is another theme that reappears throughout European history...) But still, in the new North vs. South Europe France could represent the crucial swing vote, and throw some political clout behind the interests of the South, preventing Germany from fully setting the economic agenda for the continent.

While it will now be more likely that the justices will divide evenly on difficult cases, Justice Kennedy will remain the swing vote, providing a fifth vote for a majority of progressive justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan), and remaining with the conservatives (Thomas, Roberts and Alito) in tie votes, which will leave the lower court's judgment in place and will not operate as binding precedent on lower courts.

I assume that under the existing system, the focus is on swing states, which contain moderate voters, which means convincing moderate supporters of one candidate to vote for the other candidate instead, or convincing moderate supporters of one candidate to get out and vote for them, or convincing moderate supporters of the opposing candidate to stay at home on election day.

Thus, it may be beneficial to «Dance with the Devil» if your district didn't vote for your party in the last election, or they are showing signs of a swing.

Once you take all those people away, you are left with just eight per cent of people who are not already voting Tory and for whom the issue has at least the potential to swing their vote.

I suspect that things may look a little different if you look at just the percentage fall for the main government party (and, actually, I'm about to check that) and the massive swing will have been exaggerated by the Tories not bothering in a part of the world where they've been voting tactically for over a century, but it's not entirely meaningless.

Instead, Corbyn's near - 60 % vote share has shattered the most plausible case for an internal challenge on grounds of legality or morality: there weren't anything like enough #toriesforcorbyn to have swung the result.

One of the key patterns in last year's general election results was a tendency for those who voted Remain to swing more to Labour than those who voted Leave, while the Conservatives lost ground amongst Remain voters while advancing amongst their Leave counterparts.

And how does its view compare with that of swing voters, who supported Labour in previous elections but did not vote for Gordon Brown?

Throne - Holst and Calone mentioned Zeldin's votes against funding for the Department of Homeland Security and student loans and Pell grants as signs that he is out of touch with the district, and Democrats have indicated they will attempt to paint the foreign policy hawk and only Jewish Republican in Congress as too extreme for the moderate swing district.

Katko is considered a key swing vote because Republicans can afford to lose only about 20 votes and still have the 218 votes needed for passage.

Now that the Tory - inclined swing voters have a strong Tory party to vote for, what use for New Labour?

Voting for a candidate «no matter what» is hard to quantify but a good proxy is to compare though distinguish between «swing» voters, who might potentially vote for either candidate, and «base» voters, who would only vote for one.

Jewish voters represent a sizable portion of the Queens district's population, and an even larger portion of the district's swing voters willing to vote for either party, a fact further highlighted by the announcement events of Democratic Assembly Members Rory Lancman and Grace Meng heavily highlighting the issue.

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.

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: 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.

If put in the right light, Democrats and Republicans would love this idea (like the 3 Senate seats for the Dems and a swing electoral vote in the EC for the GOP).

Just because the Tories might have secured a five percent swing in a local election from their 2013 vote, that does not equate to being on course to secure a five percent swing from 2015 for the corresponding House of Commons seat.

The press as kingmaker!The Daily Mail swung the 1924 election for the Tories by publishing the forged Zinoviev letter.The use by «The Telegraph» of purloined discs on MPs expenses was more damaging to Labour than the conservatives because it discredited parliament, differential voting did the rest.

Every four years, presidential candidates lavish attention (and, more important, campaign promises) on a dozen or so swing states whose electoral votes are up for grabs.

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).

I think that the polls may continue to swing wildly around for a few months, as we see how the economic situation pans out, I certainly get the impression in Chesterfield that an unusually high number of people are undecided at the moment, though there has certainly been an improvement in the likelihood to vote of Labour supporters in the last two or three months.

Despite remaining in opposition for its third election in a row, Labour at 40.0 % won its greatest share of the vote since 2001, made a net gain of 30 seats to reach 262 total MPs, and, with a swing of 9.6 %, [127] achieved the biggest percentage - point increase in its vote share in a single general election since 1945.

Town Councilman Dominick Stanzione took a bit of razzing from Mr. Wilkinson for his swing vote siding with the two Democrats on the board, against his fellow Republicans.

The seat is unchanged for the next election, meaning that Richard requires a swing of 7 % to oust the Secretary of State for Scotland (in the equivalent seat at the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, the Conservatives were only 891 votes behind Labour).

Pritchard was first elected to parliament for The Wrekin constituency in 2005, defeating Peter Bradley, the incumbent Labour MP, by just 942 votes although this represented a 5.4 % swing from Labour to Conservative.