Sentences with phrase «swing votes on»

Both Lugar and Corker have expressed a desire to address climate change, but have raised concerns about Democratic proposals and are considered swing votes on a climate bill this year.

- Stopping immigration and re-nationalising the railways are the most important issues that will swing votes on 7 May.

The group's Jeanette Galanis says targeted mailers have already been sent to constituents of key Senate Republicans, in hopes of persuading them to be the swing votes on the issue.

During the debate Ball was one of the swing votes on the issue.

The following list contains the potential Republican swing votes on this measure.

ALBANY - A state senator who holds a key swing vote on the bill to legalize gay marriage says he does not believe the measure will pass without specific exemptions for religious institutions.

Sen. Greg Ball, a key GOP swing vote on gay marriage, warned a bill will never pass without significant exemptions for religious institutions.

Senator John B. Breaux of Louisiana, a Democrat who holds a swing vote on the Finance Committee, said, «Everything's under consideration, but there have been no decisions.»

Death row prisoners are likely to find less success under a Trump - nominated successor, but some observers have pointed to Chief Justice John Roberts as a potential swing vote on capital cases.

Not exact matches

Kennedy will once again be the swing vote, and it's uncertain how he'll decide when he hears the case in court; in the past, he has supported limits on abortion.

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.

I read a terrific study by Richard Charnin, who is a mathematician, a liberal Democrat, an eccentric but brilliant guy, who concludes on the basis of the exit polls and the actual vote on a precinct - by - precinct basis that the swing can not be that wide without widespread voter fraud.

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

On this and other issues, she is widely perceived to be the «swing vote» on the CourOn this and other issues, she is widely perceived to be the «swing vote» on the Couron the Court.

«If you look at key swing states — Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Iowa — those are all states where you had overwhelming majorities vote to protect marriage, and I think that we are going to focus on making very clear that this is a key distinction...

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.

However, I haven't had the best of luck opposing the overwhelming favourites this season, particularly of late, so a lack of courage has swung my tentative vote in the direction of the hosts, a United side who simply must register maximum points what with league leaders City facing Chelsea on Monday night.

With the Democratic National Convention in full swing and Women's Equality Day, marking the 88th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote, celebrated on Aug. 26, women's issues have been a hot topic lately.

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

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.

The change corresponds with Clinton's drop in the national popular - vote lead: from a 5.7 - percentage - point lead in our estimate on Oct. 28 to a 2.9 - point lead now — so a swing of about 3 points against her.

Based on 2014 seat change to vote swing ratios, this would mean around 13 seats reverting from Republican to Democrat, undoing the 2014 GOP gains on 2012.

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.

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.

In 2010, though the Conservatives did not achieve the national vote share they wanted, the party's targeting strategy meant it won 23 more Labour seats and 9 more Liberal Democrat seats than it would have done on a uniform swing.

«You don't see three always on one side, three always on one side, and one swing vote.

That those viewers then swung in large numbers behind the Labour leader suggests the programme may have had an impact on the final result - particularly when just a few hundred votes in swing seats shifted June's outcome.

Complex Forecasting Models: ElectionForecast.co.uk (Chris Hanretty) Electoral Calculus (main and local election forecast) Forecast UK UK - Elect PME Politics (Patrick English) Nigel Marriot (Uniform Regional Swing + Tactical Voting Model) Chris Prosser (GE vote shares from Local elections vote shares) Lord Ashcroft (3 models based on different turnout estimates)

With many Democrats already unhappy over the vote by McMahon (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn) against health - care reform, Democratic county committee member John Lavelle Jr. said it was «disturbing» to see the lawmaker's campaign staffer on Ms. Malliotakis» page, especially given the fact that Ms. Hyer - Spencer represents a swing district crucial to McMahon's re-election chances this fall.

Stephens and Souter may have been known as liberals on the court, but they were appointed by Republicans as were the swing votes, O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy.

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.

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.

«However, we substantially cut Labour's majority and achieved a 13 per cent increase in our share of the vote and a 5 per cent swing against an entirely negative campaign on local issues from the Labour Party.»

Firstly, in Conservative - vs - Labour marginals the Conservative vote is largely unchanged from the general election, but the Liberal Democrat vote has dropped to the benefit of Labour, this means on a uniform swing Labour would gain about 28 seats from the Conservatives (though these would be seats that the Conservatives gained at the last election, so in practice the Tories would be helped by the incumbency bonus of the new MPs).

With FPTP, in a General Election a good local MP may lose their constituency because of the national swing against that MP's party, regardless of the personal merit and exemplary track record of the MP, because people decide to vote on a «party» basis.

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.

East Hampton Town Councilman Swings His Vote Grasses, not grapes, will be grown on town - owned farmland at Robert's Lane and Cedar Street in East Hampton, according to a majority vote of the town board on TuesVote Grasses, not grapes, will be grown on town - owned farmland at Robert's Lane and Cedar Street in East Hampton, according to a majority vote of the town board on Tuesvote of the town board on Tuesday.

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).

«On a uniform swing across the country, the Tories would get 278 MPs if they scoop 37 per cent of the vote.

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.

If Democrats succeed in forcing a vote on Skelos» removal next week, the support of Sampson might swing the result.

Whichever way the Scottish independence vote swings, the result will have a significant impact on England and Wales.

«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.

In comparison, Lewes is a true swing seat, where the Green vote may have had an impact on the result.

In the U.S. House, a small knot of moderate Republicans — from swing districts, from areas with high Hispanic populations, or retiring — are attempting to go around Speaker Paul Ryan and bring a compromise on immigration to the floor for a vote.

Research released by youth charity vInspired's Swing The Vote campaign seems to have hit the nail on the head.

I arrived at college on the morning of the 22nd to find debates amongst students about the European Union in full swing, everyone excitedly discussing whom they we're going to vote for that evening.

Here's US Sen. Chuck Schumer during a brief upstate swing through the Capital Region yesterday, talking about his hope that the Senate would vote on a bill that included some $ 16.1 billion worth of Medicaid funding for the states — including $ 1.1 billion New York has already accounted for in its 2010 - 2011 budget.