Sentences with phrase «than the voters»

This time it was the legislature, rather than the voters, that rejected the entire proposal.

Early primary polls showed that his supporters were more likely than voters overall to be poor, white, without higher education, and from rural counties or small towns.

And yet it is still possible that they could remain in government and continue to exert a bit more influence than voters give them credit for.

Additionally, what makes you think a local elected official is any better at vetting competence and qualifications of a candidate for official position than the voters?

You could find your core values are actually aligned more closely than your voter registrations.

However, there is at least one major difference between this kind of market research and political polling: Consumers are less likely than voters to link together various characteristics when making choices.

A statistical analysis of possible primary results by FiveThirtyEight previewed what the national write - ups will say in the case of such a result: «Winning only 70 percent of the vote would mean that voters in his party don't like Cuomo much more than voters in general do.

This means there was all across the UK more voters who chose a particular party than voters who chose any other opposition party.

Our country's founders were worried about officials or government institutions becoming dependent on special interests or big money — basically, dependence on anything or anyone other than the voters on which officials and public institutions are «properly» dependent.

This means there was all across UK more voters who choose a particular party than voters who choose any other opposition party.

Democratic city comptroller candidate John Liu is racking up more than voter support these days.

«So your position is, a decision was made very early on before voters had a say, and that's fine because the DCCC knows better than the voters of the 6th Congressional District, and we should line up behind that candidate,» asked Tillemann during the conversation.

Geographically, voters in New Mexico's Democratic - leaning north - central region — 75 percent — voiced considerably stronger support than voters on the state's Republican - leaning east side — 55 percent.

Hollande's reformist Prime Minister Manuel Valls has attributed the Socialists» poor showing in the weekend elections to divisions within the left rather than voter frustration with government policy.

Rather than voters holding their noses and staying loyal to the Tories they voted in large numbers for Corbyn.

Upstate voters have more to gain from legalizing casinos than voters in New York City, which won't benefit from the plan.

Voters in these 2012 battleground districts are no more favorable toward their incumbents than voters in Democratic - held districts were toward theirs in 2010.

The overall impression, then, was that Cameron has lost none of his gusto as a political performer: indeed, the main party leaders seem far less jaded than the voters.

«Likely Democratic primary voters who were exposed to both television and online advertising viewed Chris Kelly more favorably than voters who were exposed to television advertising only.»

Unless we take a far tougher approach to faith schools, the next generation could emerge more religious, more divided, more irrational than voters are now.

Voters are, not surprisingly, more apt to approve school budgets that aren't rising faster than voters» ability to fund them.

This group prefers Cameron to Miliband, and is more optimistic than most about the economy, but less likely than voters as a whole to trust the Tories on schools or the NHS.

«In 2009, he was a lackluster candidate,» said Baruch College professor Doug Muzzio, who maintained the closeness of the race had more to do with a backlash against Bloomberg and term limits than voters» connection with Thompson.

Hochul faces a primary challenge, and those past views might not be palatable to Democratic Primary voters, who are more liberal than voters in the general election.

UKIP voters are less likely than voters generally, and far less likely than Conservative voters, to be above - average earners.

«Such «backdoor borrowing» circumvents the State Constitution's requirement that State debt be approved by voters, and public authority debt is subject to fewer controls regarding issuance, structure and retirement than voter - approved State General Obligation bonds.»

On one issue they are in tune with the Lib Dem leadership: many more of them make education their priority than voters for other parties.

«If Labour Ministers decide that protecting their dominance in County Halls is more important than voters being able to cast a fair vote at election time, the Welsh Lib Dems will have no choice but to vote down this Bill.

Recall that the SNP won 56 of 59 seats in Scotland with a manifesto committed to promoting anti-austerity policies, and that the 45 % who voted Yes to independence were more likely to be driven by left - wing ideas than No voters.

This means that the policies discussed in Plaid's transport manifesto will be chiefly relevant to Welsh voters at next year's National Assembly elections, rather than voters at this year's general election.

It also checks far more Academy boxes than voters may realize; in addition to the mental health angle, Plaza is stretching far from her Parks And Recreation persona as a surly, deadpan troublemaker, working in an awkward, striking physicality to her performance that runs counter to her intentionally low - effort stillness as April Ludgate.

Non-voting shares trade more actively than the voters, usually at a slight price discount.

The «not in an eminent degree endowed» justification may be stronger, but it's hard to argue that the members of the electoral college (or signers of the petition) are more capable of judging the question legitimately than voters following the system which the U.S. has in place for electing a president.

«Facebook allowed them to combine different data sources in a way that allowed them to understand voters maybe better than voters themselves did,» says Dietram Scheufele, science communication professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

[47] Provided the appropriate envelope remained sealed and unopened and the contents not tampered with, there was nothing even «inherently unlawful in some person other than the voter being in possession of a completed ballot package.»

Like in 1798, there were cantons where the council voted rather than all voters.

He faunts the law to his ow design, supported by the Three Monkey Media, world wide popularity, supporters sound like disciples more than voters, and all around him submit to his presence.

Second, the Universal Declaration understands that human beings are more than voters.

Their recovery will not be automatic, and following the instincts of the Labour movement, rather than the voters, will move them further from victory.

Bridgeport's Mayor Bill Finch claims that he, rather than the voters, should be allowed to choose the members of the Board of Education.