Sentences with phrase «than voters as»

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.

Not exact matches

That was during a follow up to a question of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush about why he's more qualified to lead than the real estate billionaire, who garners as much as 41 percent of Republican voter support in some national polls, which is nearly triple the support for Cruz and four times that for Rubio.

As such, it is likely that the center - right candidate from Forza Italia, Paolo Romani, is elected due to the alliance gaining more voters than the Five Star Movement back on the March 4 vote.

But that wasn't all that depressed Clinton's vote: Hansen said a far lower number of provisional ballots than typical for a presidential election played a role, as did a recent strict voter - ID law that was in effect for its first presidential election in the state.

While their contributions as pivotal voters have gone largely unacknowledged, Ohio black voters, in particular, have pulled more than their weight for Democratic victories in one of the most highly contested states in the Electoral College.

As head of the IMF, Strauss - Kahn isn't allowed to comment directly on French politics, but he came pretty close during a Paris G20 press conference, addressing issues that would appear to be of more interest to French voters than the content of the international economic gathering.

As of November 7, more Republican - affiliated Pennsylvania voters had cast early ballots than Democratic voters, according to TargetSmart voter file data obtained by the NBC News Data Analytics Lab.

The study that Trump was mentioning, which he repeatedly referred to late during the campaign, said 24 million voter registrations were no longer valid or were significantly inaccurate, more than 1.8 million dead people were listed as voters, and about 2.8 million people were registered in more than one state.

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

More than four out of 10 GOP voters (42 percent) listed security as their top issue in Morning Consult's most recent poll, compared with 20 percent of Democrats and 26 percent of independents.

The real estate mogul has cannily understood that despite polling that indicates most Americans see free trade as more of an opportunity than a threat, a large and motivated minority of voters have been yearning for a politician to call into question whether the trade deals we have on the books are good for American workers.

Although Chinese rulers do not have to face voters to stay in office, as Trump will likely do in four years, they have a far more intuitive sense that it is their ability to deliver economic prosperity rather than their ideological purity that will keep them in power.

It also mentioned that governments might be inclined to organise referenda to counteract the «perception that the EU is an «elite - driven» project,» as it notes that notion has been lingering since the start of the recession as «voters increasingly associat [e] the EU project with austerity, rather than a source of union and prosperity.»

The Times reported that «in one early test, more than half the Oklahoma voters whom Cambridge had identified as Cruz supporters actually favored other candidates.»

The national income accounts initially were designed by statisticians, but now they're designed by lobbyists, and the lobbyists work in Congress to say here's how we want to depict the economy as if it's actually benefiting the voters instead of specifically benefiting the FIRE sector — Finance, Insurance and Real Estate — which depicts itself as contributing to growth rather than being a parasite on growth, as I've described in Killing the Host.

The Academy's membership demographics have changed more in the last four years than in the previous 20, and as a result, we know less about what voters will or won't do than we ever have.

Our team used a methodology known as multi-level regression and poststratification to crunch responses from more than 44,000 registered voters with state - level demographics such as gender, income, and education level.

As more than a few columnists have been writing, voters in Calgary will be the most important constituency in 2019 election.

Politico's Toby Eckert: «More than half of registered voters say they haven't noticed an increase in their paychecks as a result of the new tax law, and support for the law overall remains tepid, according to a new POLITICO / Morning Consult poll.

So, voters have more respect for someone who believes strongly even if the voter sees those beliefs as untrue and wrong, than for someone who does not believe?

As it becomes clear Donald Trump's candidacy for president will be more than a sideshow this year, the probable Republican nominee is making his pitch to Christian voters.

CNN: Passing significant test, Gingrich wins more S.C. evangelicals than rivals If there were any doubts that Newt Gingrich, a thrice - married convert to Catholicism, could connect with the evangelical voters who make up the Republican Party base, Saturday's South Carolina primary put them to rest, with the former House Speaker winning twice as many evangelical votes as anyone else in the race.

Tea Party supporters are «much more likely than registered voters as a whole to say that their religion is the most important factor in determining their opinions on... social issues» like abortion and same - sex marriage, according to the Pew analysis.

Rasmussen's April survey also showed that likely voters were more likely to describe themselves as «pro-choice» than «pro-life,» by a 51 «40 margin.

Despite a slogan («Make America Great Again») that targeted oldster nostalgia and irritated young nonwhites whose ancestors were either in some other country or barred from voting in this one when America was allegedly great — and despite his stranger - than - fiction gaffes and scandals, Trump did almost exactly as well as Romney had among young voters.

He says, «My read is that Bachmann supporters who are worried about conservative authenticity think of Perry as more authentic than Romney, and Romney voters who are worried about governing competence think that Perry is more competent....

«For example, the gap among voting blocs that gave a B or better to the Republicans versus the Democrats was greater among white evangelicals than all other religious groups and all voters, as reported in these data,» he wrote.

Now, as he wages an uphill battle for the Republican nomination, Perry is emphasizing his Christian commitment even more than in the past, trying to line up support from conservative Christian leaders and religious voters nationwide.

Just as candidate Trump pledged to say «Merry Christmas» in his White House, rather than President Obama's tepid «Happy Holidays,» and just as he promised to choose an anti-Roe justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia, Trump's «We want God» assured religious voters that he would not apologize for his faith nor deny that it would play a role in his decision - making.

More than a hundred million voters each had something in mind, but discerning their intent is no easy matter (and not only when, as in Florida, they failed to indicate their intent on the ballot).

As I said, it is because the U.S. has politics — has a free, open, competitive democracy where interests jostle, candidates argue, and voters think for themselves — that we can expect the Pope's impact to cool faster than the engine of his Fiat.

The Top 10 as determined by more than 18,600 votes by 6,025 voters are as follows:

Though as ever, online football polls speak far more eloquently about the identity of the voters than the shape of the truth.

Being the quarterback for an NFL team is much tougher than being a running back (trust me, I know from experience), and the voters showed that they will reward a play caller even if his stats aren't as great on paper.

The battle for the title was slightly tighter than expected though, as 23 % of the voters snubbed the Belgian to choose Cesar Azpilicueta as the winner.

As IPPR's new report into political inequality shows, less than half of 18 — 24 - year - olds voted, compared to nearly four - fifths of the over-65s, while three - quarters of «AB» individuals cast a ballot, against just over half of «DE» registered voters.

If the voters demanded two incompatible things (like much lower taxes and much higher spending) then no government can deliver both any more than they can define Pi as 3 or abolish the law of gravity.

As you might recall, Crowley was less than forthcoming earlier this week when asked by reporters about Lancman's claim the party is trying to siphon Jewish voters away from him by running Gottlieb — a late add to the NY - 6 field who has well - documented (thanks to Chris Bragg) ties to Meng and also (oddly) certain elements of the Queens GOP.

«Push polls» are actually political telemarketing — telephone calls disguised as research that aim to persuade large numbers of voters and affect election outcomes, rather than measure opinions.

Just as those who give to charity want to see as much as possible of their money go to the intended beneficiaries rather than chief executives» salaries, and investors in companies want to see overhead and administration costs kept down, elected politicians want to show voters that they are running a tight ship.

What is clear is that even as a majority of all voters are still getting to know the Republican candidates, 36 percent of suburban voters would still prefer someone other than Kirsten Gillibrand.»

«While a bare majority of Democrats think the country is on the right track, as do a plurality of New York City voters, more than three quarters of Republicans and roughly six in ten independents, downstate suburbanites and upstaters say the country is headed in the wrong direction.»

So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:

As I predicted on this blog in January and contrary to many commentators» expectations, the referendum engaged more voters than recent general elections.

Cherwin called Yepsen a «true progressive» and a «fresh face,» who he believes voters of the 43rd Senate District will find more attractive in an election year expected to be difficult for incumbents than the man to whom he referred as «Bruno's hand - picked replacement.»

This degree of supporter influence seems to have gone too far, however: Royal's desire to be a «platform for the people» led French voters to see her as being blown by the winds of opinion rather than having strong convictions herself.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has received a major boost ahead of next May's Holyrood elections as a poll finds more than half of voters now back independence.

If we view women as rational voters who likely weigh any number of different issues that they find important before making a decision on a slate of candidates, than this example is anything but puzzling.

As for the last paragraph, VVD scores about the same domestically and internationally but D66, with similar policies (perhaps more migrant - friendly but otherwise I'm not sure how they differ), but with almost exclusively university - educated voters, scores far better internationally than domestically.

But polls suggest that many voters blame George W Bush rather than Barack Obama for the mess, and I suspect that many see Romney's economics as part of the same «trickle - down» tradition that they associate with the Credit Crunch.