Sentences with phrase «swung the vote more»

Nationally this only had a modest impact (3 %), but in a few crucial states, this may have swung the vote more than expected.

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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

Representing more than a quarter of the electorate and voting with the winner of the popular vote in every presidential election since at least 1972, Roman Catholics are quintessential swing voters.

Concern has been expressed that the tax was unnecessarily rushed through the approval process just before an election that would have added two more people to the 5 - member board that could have swung the vote against the tax.

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.

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.

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.

This would suggest that voting preference is less swung by the day - to - day cut and thrust of an election campaign, and more with identification with the principles that underlay the party's ethos.

Six in ten swing voters, and a third of those who currently say they will vote Labour, worry that Labour have not learned the right lessons from their time in government and that they might spend and borrow more than the country can afford.

The left - wing positions of Central Scotland's SNP and Labour candidates within their own parties highlight that the political culture of the region's voters may be more stable than dramatic vote swings suggest.

The venue, according to the National Chairman of the NDC, Kofi Portuphy, was strategically selected to help the party win more votes in the swing region.

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.

Tkaczyk spokesman James Plastiras said the campaign «is just swinging into high gear, and with every debate that's held, voters learn more about George Amedore's extremist, anti-choice, anti-women, anti-environmental and anti-consumer positions and voting record.»

Mack won the race after absentee ballots, which were counted last, swung the race by more than 40,000 votes.

I might have taken a swing at it if I didn't observe that fact - based but politically polarizing answers on this SE get voted on by political alignment more than quality.

The difference is that swings are more logical, in that AV rules out vote - splitting.

Grimm's vote reflects his evolution from a Tea Party candidate in 2010 to a more moderate profile that's suited to his Staten Island swing district.

with trump being so insane and this a swing district he probably assumed that he would lose anyway even if he didn't vote for this so he's resigned himself to being a one - termer, and the post-term options for a loyal one - termer are much more numerous than for one who went against the family.

That's partly why my question is about the more realistic issue of whether a state with a small population could swing the electoral vote.

Kennedy is considered more of a swing vote and has voted to uphold Roe v. Wade, although he is more willing to limit it than the more liberal members of the court.

The idea is to shift votes from the heavily Democratic city to swing districts where they could have more impact.

A reputable new poll has found that 38 % of gay men intend to vote Conservative at the next election — more than any other party, and a swing away from Labour of 14.2 %.

The reason the party did not win a majority, he said, was because not enough people trusted the party with their vote and that more reassurance needed to be given to swing voters so that they could vote Conservative with confidence and without fear.

Another way of not letting her damage labours chances is to make labour appear electable and get more swing voters, voting for us,

The longer Swing Vote hangs around, the more engaging it becomes.

«There were about five or six more swing votes that we thought might go in our favor, but then, literally the day before the vote, the rural electric co-ops got very busy.

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».

In one document, SCL said that encouraging people «not to vote» might be more effective than trying to motivate swing voters.